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 ...

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

“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 ...

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 — ...

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 ...

The characters in "A Spool of Blue Thread" look like the same Baltimore family members we've socialized with for 50 years in Anne Tyler's fiction. In fact, everything about her new novel — from its ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This review was originally published on February 7 2015 and has been republished to mark the author's nomination for the Man Booker Prize 2015 'Like most families,” Anne Tyler says of the Whitshanks, ...