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Academic sessions are winding down in various universities in Nigeria. Undergraduates writing their final exams participate ...

You can co-write with another eligible writer for Long Story Short (see list of eligible BBC Writers programmes in the opportunity brief) but you cannot submit an idea with a writer who has not taken ...

The massive Game Freak leak has taken a rather unusual turn, as alleged Pokemon origin and lore-building stories have been ...

For years I have been hearing about detective stories. Almost everybody I know seems to read them, and they have long conversations about them in which I am unable to take part. I am always being ...

In an interview with 'The Guardian,' Denzel Washington revealed that his favorite book is 'Siddhartha' by Hermann Hesse. Here ...

A South County icon is changing hands, as Healy’s owner Sally Minetti sells the Wakefield news stand to David Hall of Exeter.

Storyteller Sebastian Lockwood will read selections from his new book, “Written in Granite: Monadnock Poems & Stories,” at the Dublin Community Center, aka the DubHub, on Wednesday, Oct. 23, from ...

That’s why Rossen Reports is sharing dos and don’ts for what to buy this October. Do: Shop end-of-season apparel: Winter is ...

I tend only to read novels by women these days, a trend which started a few years ago when I encountered, in close succession, the short stories of Anaïs Nin, the work of Shirley Jackson and an ...

The viral folklore about self-aware chatbots and AI-generated podcast hosts who fear death is not what it appears to be.

George and Gladys Smith in front of their home on the South Side next to Woods elementary in 2023 Manuel Martinez/WBEZ Share For years, readers had to pay if they wanted to read the Sun-Times ...