Fiction

Zoho Corp founder and chief executive Sridhar Vembu took to Twitter on Tuesday to deny allegations that he had abandoned his wife and son. It is “complete fiction”, he tweeted.1/ With vicious personal attacks and slander on my character, it…

Tokyo —  Nobel literature laureate Kenzaburo Oe, whose darkly poetic novels were built from his childhood memories during Japan’s postwar occupation and from being the parent of a disabled son, has died. He was 88. Oe, who was also an…

Finalists read from their works at the presentation ceremony in the Great Hall of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C.The winner of the $15,000 prize will be announced in early April. Previous recipients include Philip Roth,…

Topline The horrifying zombie fungus disease that wiped out most of humanity in HBO’s hit adaptation of The Last of Us is inspired by a real group of fungi that pose no threat to humans, but experts warn fungal infections are already a…

The term "grimdark" originates from the "Warhammer 40k" tabletop game, which uses the tagline, "In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war." In short, it's a subgenre of fantasy fiction that favors…

There was a moment, after many trials and errors, that a team of engineering researchers at Concordia University realized they had achieved something remarkable.It may not have looked like much from the outside: a few clicks on a computer…

Disability representation is slowly increasing in books geared toward children and teens. In 2019 the Cooperative Children’s Book Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison – a library that allows teachers, librarians and…

The film from Midsommer and Hereditary director Ari Aster arrives in theaters April 21 Reality and illusion blur into one in the first official trailer for Ari Aster’s upcoming dramedy Beau is Afraid. Joaquin…

Earlier today I set you these two questions, in the spirit of Lewis Carroll, who died 125 years ago this week.1. A handy chatCheshire Cat: Okay Alice, let us call a whole number ‘handy’ if its digits add to a multiple of 5. Can you think of…

Lewis Carroll, who died 125 years ago on Saturday, was perhaps the world’s greatest populariser of logical puzzles. His most famous book, Alice in Wonderland, is a masterclass in how to turn arcane mathematical logic into whimsy and humour.…