Does every portrait tell a story? The origins of the English word "portrait" trace back to the French portraire, which comes from the phrase trait pour trait, meaning "line by line," describing the…
Here is a riddle in French: Je parle toutes les langues et j'ai tout le temps la tête à l'envers. Qui suis-je? I speak all languages, and I always have my head upside down. Who am I? French bilingual…
Here is a centuries-old Armenian riddle by Nerses Shnorhali.No feathers and no wings it has,Swifter than a bird it flies,From land to land it tours and turns,With companions it returns.Արդ է անթև և…
When in the second half of the last century Isaac Bashevich Singer was awarded a Noble Prize for Literature, he raised an interesting question: “People ask me often, ‘Why do you write in a dying…
