When I saw today’s theme I initially feared that it was going to be about boring legal words (and who’d want that), but my concerns were soon eased when the first Hint gave me ZOMBIE – which ...

MARGARET ATWOOD'S Oryx and Crake manages to be simultaneously bleak, witty and immensely enjoyable, no mean feat given that its subject is the destruction of humankind. Set in an unspecified location ...

Even if the members behind the Denver death-doom trio Oryx don’t survive the end of the world, in whatever form that takes, they like the idea that their music will outlast them. It’s an ...

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These remarkable and intricate illustrations are the work of Mark Catesby, an English naturalist and artist who made numerous visits to North America in the early 18th century, recording the flora ...

Graphic illustration and graphic design are two related but distinct fields of visual communication. Both involve creating images and layouts for various purposes, such as advertising, branding ...

Last spring, pandemic-related disaster novels (Ling Ma’s “Severance,” Margaret Atwood’s “Oryx and Crake”) and apocalyptic thrillers (“Contagion” and “Outbreak” spring to mind ...