A reflection on how early-life trauma might not just prepare us to cope with danger and anguish but attract us to it ...

They’d hung up, but he still had the phone in his hand when a blue flash came out. He hadn’t realized there’d been a lightning storm brewing.  He felt his body fly backward—and then, confusingly, ...

When a woman in a ragged purple dress with bruises around her neck and a bag full of gold shows up at the doorstep of the ...

Green-fingered favourite Alan Titchmarsh apparently has a little-known passion that forced him to make a major revamp to his family home ...

Try to leave out the part that readers tend to skip.” So reads the 10th of “10 Rules of Writing” (2007) by Elmore Leonard ...

It has been a while since news last emerged about National Laureate Datuk Seri Abdul Samad Mohamed Said, better known as A.

Good fashion earns its right to be remembered.” Those words weren’t just spoken by Claire McCardell, but she lived up to them ...

Thomas Jefferson, who used only 1,320 words in the Declaration of Independence to set the world afire, was no slouch when it came to concise writing. “The most valuable of all talents is that of never ...

As a child, Islam was weaponised to keep independent-thinking women like me, and anyone who opposes the fundamentalists, in ...

A. Samad Said’s name reached its pinnacle with the official publication of his novel ‘Salina’ in 1961. The story revolves around the conflict and struggles of a woman named Salina, set against the ...

In 1952, she and her friend Marianne Mantell founded Caedmon Records, putting out LP records of poets and authors reading ...

Three people from Fort St. John - Amber Lindley, Kyle Monteith and Mitch Shyanne - are all in the running for the quarter ...