The story of any song, not least of all one as popular or as recognisable as Fairytale of New York, is rarely ...

Gateway Playhouse in Somers Point recently announced its 2025 Mainstage Season, which will include: George S. Kaufman and ...

White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her ... when the Rabbit actually took a watch out of its waistcoat-pocket, and looked at it, and then ...

The Bible describes what happened to John in Matthew 14:1–12 and Mark 6:14-30. We’re told John got into trouble with Herod ...

Published in December 2007, Beedle was the complete book of fairy tales that play a crucial role in the final ... because of its distinction as the first book ever printed in the British colonies that ...

NEW YORK — Percival Everett's "James," a daring reworking of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," won the National Book ...

In the trailer for “Nosferatu,” a Gothic vampire tale opening Christmas Day, a swooning Lily-Rose Depp describes how the titular bloodsucker makes her feel: “Standing before me was Death, but I’d ...

Video / NZ Herald Lord of the Rings, stories about Christmas and Easter, and nearly all books containing pictures of animals wearing clothes are on the list of reading material considered too ...

Hyperion Asset Management’s global growth fund is on a good wicket with big bets on artificial intelligence and big tech. The fund, which delivered a stonking 39.8 per cent in the year to ...

Great British Commanders is an encyclopedic compendium of great commanders through the ages, accompanied by a useful chronology at the end of the book. The character studies and the lessons provided ...

For the first time, an Algerian author has won France’s top literary award, the Goncourt, with a searing account of his country’s 1990s civil war. Kamel Daoud’s novel Houris tells of Algeria ...