Excerpted from “The David Foster Wallace Reader” And here's our earlier look at a syllabus from one of David Foster Wallace's fiction seminars. There are no required textbooks 1 and I will provide ...

Winners of the Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Competition met The Queen at St James’s Palace – following a tour of The Standard’s office. Queen Camilla met the winners and runners-up of the world’s oldest ...

Children’s Day is celebrated every year on November 14, in India to honour the birth anniversary of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of independent India. Nehru was deeply fond of ...

Teachers’ Day Essay Samples: Teachers’ Day is celebrated every year on 5 September in India to honour Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, the second President of India and a respected teacher. On this day, ...

Introduction: Primary school is a critical period for children’s language development, coinciding with rapid cognitive growth that supports the emergence of writing skills. Understanding how ...

Yoga Day Essay 2025: International Yoga Day 2025 will be celebrated on June 21 across the world. It is a global event that highlights the benefits of yoga for mental, physical, and spiritual ...

As a student, you’ve likely encountered the challenge of crafting a compelling descriptive essay. This form of writing requires you to paint a vivid picture with words, engaging your reader’s senses ...

It is a truth only fitfully acknowledged that whom the gods wish to destroy, they first give an opinion column. “A live coffin,” a former newspaper colleague of mine once called hers. (She quit.) Such ...

Mark Woolhouse receives funding from the European Union and the Wellcome Trust. He is a member of the Scottish Government's Standing Committee on Pandemic Preparedness and has advised the Scottish and ...

This June, I was invited on a friend’s podcast to answer a question I’ve been asked over and over again in the Trump era. Are Christians really persecuted in the United States of America? Millions of ...

The college application season is upon us, and high school students everywhere are staring down at one of the most daunting tasks: the college essay. As someone who has guided countless applicants ...