Medieval Gaelic writers provided advice and guidance on topics like wealth, love and drink in the form of witty dánfhocail ...

Hipparchia is a genus of butterflies in the Nymphalidae family, so large that it includes nearly six thousand species worldwide. The name was given in 1807 by the Danish zoologist Johan Christian ...

Ancient Greece is known for many things, but how many of us know that there were a select few women who became exceptional ...

Their eccentricity might be charming if it wasn’t for the assumption that everyone else speaks that way ...

In recent bereavement of MTV channels being shut down across UK televisions at the end of last year, is the music video under ...

Spring’s highlights include assertions of identity from contemporary American artists, examinations of late-career renewal and a new treasure trove for Angelinos.

In 2013, a special report from Epigram revealed that 62 per cent of students had experienced sexism or sexual harassment. In a survey conducted this week, results found that 68 per cent of students ...

SINGAPORE – Singaporean writer Ratna Damayanti Taha’s debut novel Mind The Gap has beaten more than 50 manuscripts from across South-east Asia to win the Epigram Books Fiction Prize (EBFP) 2026, ...

Religion is opium for the people. —Lenin. In Moscow grim Nikolai Lenin’s grimmer successor, Josef Stalin, showed last week that he too can coin mirthless epigrams, as hard as the nickname, “Steel,” ...

2025 was another great year for scoffing at politicians and Washington. Here are some of the zestiest lines from articles I wrote last year. “Trump’s economic victory proclamations are akin to a bad ...