A knife-wielding masked man. A pig’s head outside his parents’ door. Running 30 marathons in 35 days. The Cambridge professor Jason Arday, accused of plagiarism, says he’s been through it all. Not ...

Twenty-three hundred years ago, the legend goes, King Ptolemy I of Egypt asked his court adviser to assemble a comprehensive collection of the world’s written works. Ptolemy, who had served under ...

Cambridge continued their dominance of the men's Chanel J12 Boat Race after Oxford ended their long losing run in the women's event on the River Thames. In windy conditions down the Thames, Cambridge ...

Light-blue crew power to four-length win in men’s race Oxford’s women ended eight years of Cambridge dominance in their Boat Race with a sensational performance led by the Olympic medallist Heidi Long ...

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Every January, many of us resolve to finally read more. A new book appears on the nightstand, an audiobook gets downloaded, or we dust off an old library card. We keep finding our way back to it ...

When was the last time you curled up with a good book or flipped through the pages of a magazine? If it’s been a while, you’re not alone: The number of Americans who read for fun has plummeted over ...

A sweeping new study from the University of Florida and University College London has found that daily reading for pleasure in the United States has declined by more than 40% over the last 20 years — ...

You’re reading Open Questions, Joshua Rothman’s weekly column exploring what it means to be human. What do you read, and why? A few decades ago, these weren’t urgent questions. Reading was an ...

Prof Aaron Koller hopes to broaden appeal of Hebrew and move away from it being seen as ‘a political thing’ When Henry VIII established a royal professorship in Hebrew nearly 500 years ago, the idea ...

IELTS assesses Listening, Reading, Writing, and Speaking. Academic & General Training share syllabus, but Reading & Writing differ. Speaking involves a face-to-face interview with three parts. IELTS ...