We’ll Help You Find Your Next Great Book. (Spoiler: It’s the ‘Odyssey.’)

This summer, it’s also a major motion picture, starring Matt Damon as the wily, beleaguered Bronze Age hero Odysseus, a ...
The Daily Dot

‘Rhymes With Grug’: The unhinged meme about tragedy, chaos, and The Croods

TikTok’s latest unhinged meme trend takes a line from the 2013 animated DreamWorks film The Croods and applies it to taboo subjects. Dubbed the "Rhymes With Grug" meme, users are pairing scenes of the ...
NPR

Reason Behind the Rhyme: Rub-a-Dub-Dub

London librarian Chris Roberts fills Debbie Elliott in on the three men in the tub as a series on the real meaning of nursery rhymes continues. Roberts is the author of Heavy Words Lightly Thrown: The ...
NPR

Reason Behind the Rhyme: 'Little Jack Horner'

Host Debbie Elliott and Chris Roberts dissect the meaning of the nursery rhyme "Little Jack Horner." It's about a real estate swindle in 16th-century England. Roberts is the author of Heavy Words ...
American Songwriter

The Art of Rhyme, Part II.

Welcome to Part Two of our exploration and celebration of the use of rhyme in songs. The issue raised in Part One, whether songs require rhyme, and, if so, if they need to be perfect rhymes or not, is ...
Slate

Counting Couplets

Photo illustration by Juliana Jiménez Jaramillo. Bieber photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images. Beatles photo by Peter Skingley/AFP/Getty Images. What do Justin Bieber and the Beatles have in common?