Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister on Sunday (February 1) took a dig at the Union Budget using a nursery rhyme. Banerjee called it a ‘Humpty Dumpty budget’, accusing the Centre of not giving a single ...

In 1947, Robert Penn Warren seized upon an element of the “Humpty Dumpty” rhyme and its implications for the title and ...

The childhood songs stuck in your head are actually protecting your memory Remember singing “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” ...

Whether you're at the supermarket, the park or home, it is always a good time to practise rhyming words. Recognising and producing rhymes is a key skill, which will help unlock important language and ...

Find out what The A.V. Club will be playing next month in our February games preview. It might get pretty scary.

A common myth during many plagues, but most specifically the bubonic plague, was that only the poor got sick and died. This classist ideology had people believing for centuries that the wealthy were ...

Music features in the plots of some her novels from Death on the Nile and A Caribbean Mystery to Hercule Poirot's Christmas, ...

William Blake’s “The Clod & the Pebble” is a dialogue on tenderness and cruelty in three short stanzas. Read it with our critic A.O. Scott, and then play a game to memorize it.

COMMENTARY: 'Family' has, evidently, acquired new — and some would say, ominous — connotations in a world of infertility.

Isolation, paranoia, guilt, and silence are a recipe for unholy terror in Undertone, a thriller that asks its audience to ...

Many of New York's proudest nicknames began as insults or responses to something negative.

SOME years ago, Sheffield University academics researching how we live in England called Bramhall the least lonely place to ...