An obsession with eating fish mapped onto all sorts of social anxieties, from gluttony and gambling problems to wasteful spending and licentiousness.

MTV might take credit for getting spoken word on the pop cultural radar, but it’s a tradition that spans millennia and continents.

Many of us strive to avoid talking politics at a big holiday feasts. But in Homer's Greece, feasting was all about politics.

Death on stage has a long, gory history. From Ancient Greece to 19th century Paris to The Walking Dead. Why does theatre like death so much?

What constitutes ‘correct’ grammar in English seems to have a cyclical life, aided and abetted by new generations of enthusiastic grammarians.