Scholars debate whether the Gospel stories preserve ancient memories or are just Greek literature in disguise. But there’s a ...

Just as worrying is the latest set of ‘Black Swan’ or ‘Friday Surprise ... manoeuvrings and naïve camouflage of Hans Christian Andersen’s emperor with no clothes.

As it turns out, Hans Christian ... mobile features, Andersen grew handsome only in middle age, when accomplishment and celebrity settled a kind of self-confidence upon him. Until then, he was an ugly ...

Today is International Children’s Book Day – chosen to coincide with Hans Christian Andersen’s birthday – and we’re looking back at the author’s influence and the significance of ...