A week aboard a yacht, with the help of a local skipper, makes for the ultimate sailing adventure around Greece’s Ionian ...

In 1942, two dozen solvers assembled in a Fleet Street room, their task to crack the Telegraph crossword in under 12 minutes.

The best books transport readers in ways a plane or boat (“frigate”) cannot. Likewise, poems such as this one carry us to faraway lands faster than the fastest horse (or, in the words of this ...

Bengaluru: Kaanada Kadalige Hambaliside Mana (My heart's longing for the unseen sea), wrote late poet Rashtrakavi GS Shivarudrappa.

In A Ghost in the Throat, Doireann Ní Ghríofa weaves a haunting and lyrical narrative that blends memoir, history, and poetry. The book explores the life of 18th-century poet Eibhlín Dubh Ní ...

“There’s a dance when you create the art or you live in a certain way,” Honarvar said. “When you create the art or you live a ...

The British sunk their claws into Hong Kong in stages. In 1842 they colonised Hong Kong island; 1860 saw the seizure of the Kowloon peninsula, and in 1898, the British took out a 99-year lease on ...

There’s a whole lot of false consciousness running around. How to battle against it?  It’s a matter of public health.  It’s ...