One of my favorite things is sitting on a wooden bench and looking at the blue sky, with green leaves glittering and brown ...

Seán Kelly James Harpur has long made a virtue of doing the unexpected. His latest release, The Gospel of Gargoyle, a series ...

In the latest in a series looking at Shakespeare’s references to birds, Steve Sutherland has the lark in his sights.

You have to be thin, but not too thin. And you can never say you want to be thin. You have to say you want to be healthy, but ...

Planners to meet: The Rancho Bernardo Planning Board will meet at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, March 20 in the Bernardo Heights ...

Ross Macdonald’s “The Underground Man” is exquisitely attuned to the Californian landscape—how it rises, falls, smells, and, most indelible of all, how it burns.

The Nickel Boys dramatises the real-life history of a segregated reform school in the segregated Jim Crow South: a front for ...

The Egyptians sought not merely to enslave, but also to put an end to, the people of Israel. One way of doing so was to kill all male children. Another was simply to interrupt normal family life.

There are hidden family stories, and tales of love and loss both real and imagined in this month's best books, as recommended by ABC Arts critics and readers.

“As part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative, Firefly’s Blue Ghost Mission 1, named Ghost Riders in the Sky ... with basaltic lava, a dark lava commonly found ...

Rower Ananya Prasad became the first woman of colour to finish one of the toughest open-water rowing competitions in the ...