I was delighted recently to discover that three of my favorite authors, all from extremely different backgrounds and ...

Homer and Odysseus live in a world where there is no one morality common to all people. Odysseus is never condemned for being ...

Tributes have been paid to the acclaimed Belfast-born poet Michael Longley, who has died at the age of 85. The President of Ireland Michael D Higgins said he regarded him "as a peerless poet" and that ...

Gabriela Mistral was a woman who forged herself amidst nature, facing the sea and surrounded by books—a frustrated mother and ...

As a religion scholar, however, I believe one of the greatest loves in the Bible is a story of friendship: the intense ...

In a new memoir, singer-songwriter Neko Case explores how she learned to channel long-ago loneliness into lyrical harmony.

Belfast-born writer Michael Longley has been remembered as “one of the greatest poets that Ireland has ever produced” following his death ... poems including The Ice-Cream Man and arguably his ...

With the dawn of a ceasefire in Gaza, the writer reflects on collections by Palestinian poets that don’t lose sight of love and wonder in the face of exile and destruction.

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Over a career that’s now in its seventh decade, Frederick Seidel has published nearly 20 notable collections of poetry—work ...

Paul Fussell’s 50-year-old survey of trench warfare deserves a new generation of readers, our book critic writes.

Whether one loves it or loathes it, St Valentine’s Day has arrived - in Luxembourg and many places around... }} ...