Voldemort gets all the glory, but what about the boy behind the infamous wizard? You-Know-Who. The Dark Lord. We love a villain with a good identity crisis. There's a decent amount of Tom Riddle in ...

Riddles are rooted deeply in the Western literary tradition. The Exeter Book, the largest extant collection of Old English writing, contains punning, rhymes, and riddles in the form of kennings, or ...

On one of the small displays scattered around the Watson Library on the ground floor sits a quaint and labyrinthine recent acquisition: Amos Paul Kennedy Jr.’s “Riddle ma riddle as I suppose” (2002).

Toni Morrison began her latest novel, Love, to explore the changes wrought by the US civil-rights movement. But her evolving characters drew her deeper into what had always fascinated her - the two ...

Dangerous Waters: The Life and Death of Erskine Childers by Leonard Piper 261pp, Hambledon and London, £19.95 Erskine Childers might have been a character from a Buchan novel, except that it was he ...