Like a lot of us, I have spent years looking for the real city. So I spent a couple of days at midweek looking for what a blogger called "the authentic San Francisco.'' ...

Behind every smart move, there’s a golden rule. And now, a whole series of them.Welcome to The Golden Thumbrule, where wisdom ...

There’s a moment when you bite into truly exceptional French toast – that magical second when the crispy, caramelized ...

The Fourth Eclogue of the Roman poet Virgil stands out among his pastoral poems as a piece charged with a mysterious and powerful prophecy. Written around 40 BC, during the turbulent era following ...

Consequently, they figured out that to work out the number of poems of a given length you just had to add the number of poems that were one syllable shorter to the number that were two syllables ...

The End of the Humanity According to Ancient Greek Mythology. Credit: Stefans02 / Flickr / CC BY-2.0 According to ancient Greek mythology, there are five ages known as “The Ages of Man,” during which ...

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Daniel Mendelsohn writes about the Roman poet Catullus, his groundbreaking love poetry, his contradictory character, and the difficulties of translating him, apropos recent renderings of his work ...

National Haiku Month appears on a few calendars. February was chosen to honor this poetic form, the shortest month for the shortest form of poetry. Haiku is Japan’s traditional poetry.

The mission statement of the God Squad is that we know enough about how we are different and not enough yet about how we are all the same. I realize that I have been spending too much time writing ...

The Golden Rule captures that reciprocity that is at the heart of ethics. So, Jesus and Hillel taught us two aspects of the Golden Rule, but those teachings only cover Judaism and Christianity.