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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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).

Q: Where is the Bible kept in the library? A: The reverence section. "Why is a raven like a writing desk?" The Mad Hatter's unanswered riddle in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland sent readers into a ...

There’s a certain state of mind I call crossword brain: It’s both intuitive and counterintuitive, knowing when to turn away from the seemingly obvious solution, but also knowing when to trust your ...