In fact, he is a "hikikomori," or social recluse. Saito describes himself as “a Japanese novelist who writes novels and poems in Romanian while living in Japan.” “The story of how I ...

He blamed his unfinished poem on ‘a person on business from Porlock’. Who was this arch-interrupter? Joanna Kavenna goes looking for the person from Porlock.

I agree the poem is a treasure. It was written by a former assistant United Nations secretary-general who passed away in 2010 ...

Merle Haggard has always been a stellar lyricist and singer, but this video proves that the man also had quite the knack for penning a poem.

I came across a column of yours that I had clipped and tucked away. On one of the pages I had dog-eared was the poem, “Decide ...

While doing some house cleaning, I came across a column of yours that I had clipped and tucked away. On one of the pages I had dog-eared was the poem, “Decide to Forgive.” I was struck by ...

While doing some house cleaning, I came across a column of yours that I had clipped and tucked away. On one of the pages I had dog-eared was the poem, “Decide to Forgive.” I was struck by how timely ...

The writer, surgeon, and former U.S.A.I.D. senior official Atul Gawande on the Trump Administration’s decimation of foreign ...

A panel of more than 60 experts (authors, critics, academics, festival curators and booksellers) select their favourite Irish ...

Driving up the ski-basin road, I spot purple asters and know it is time; near a blood-red, white- flecked amanita, I dig two red-capped boletes out of the earth; green-stained Lactarius ...

A forgotten copy of Shakespeare’s famous Sonnet 116 was found tucked away in a 17th-century manuscript in the Oxford Library.