Explore the understated yet vital role of the spool in our lives. Learn about its etymology, original purpose, and relevance ...

This is not an LED display, it’s a thread display. The hardware artists over at Breakfast, a Brooklyn based rapid product and prototype company, built this color display that uses spools of thread for ...

“The trouble with dying,” a mother says in Anne Tyler’s new novel, “is that you don’t get to see how everything turns out. You won’t know the ending.” “But, Mom,” replies her daughter, “there is no ...

Recycling isn't a new idea. Our ancestors reused bits of cloth for quilts, made clothing out of flour bags and used old cigar boxes to make chip-carved picture frames and boxes. Their rule was "waste ...

Seek and find puzzles have captivated and perplexed humans for centuries. These intricate visual challenges have ignited our curiosity and tested the limits of our perception. By immersing ourselves ...

Anne Tyler on her new novel A Spool of Blue Thread, Elizabeth Harrower on publishing again after four decades and a close reading of Muriel Spark's manipulative Miss Jean Brodie. Show more Anne ...

This article contains affiliate links. We may earn a small commission on items purchased through this article, but that does not affect our editorial judgement. THAT’s the leafy Baltimore suburb where ...

What makes it so good? Its subject is her most recognizable and essential one, family, its setting again Baltimore, its story told in her customarily sweet, wistful, comic voice. In other words, A ...

Lili Nedved walks along a row of desks observing her students, who are hunched over their A-line skirt projects in silent concentration. The only sounds filtering through the airy space are the steady ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. As I settled in to Anne Tyler’s A Spool of Blue Thread, I recognised with a shiver of delight the same feelings — ...