Yesterday marked the ninety-fifth anniversary of Vladimir Mayakovsky’s suicide. It is particularly significant today that World War I played such a key role in shaping him. This war led to the ...

So where is this heading? The Russian, taken all in all, is the greatest of European cultures. Music dominates in Germany, ...

Longfellow's poem on Paul Revere highlights revolutionary spirit; actual events reveal collective citizen action against ...

Anette Ostro’s “The Golden Swan” tells the story of her brother, a Norwegian actor who was abducted and murdered by a ...

The poem began: “gadji beri bimba / glandridi ... “For many intellectuals,” she writes in the National Gallery catalog, “World War I produced a collapse of confidence in the rhetoric ...

John Loveday spent his boyhood in Old Buckenham, near Attleborough, and always felt a special relationship with the village and the friends and characters he knew from his youth. His 2019 memoir, The ...

A keffiyeh-clad attendee at a pro-Palestine fundraiser in Michigan vowed that people at the event are willing to fight to ...

Vince Maranto is waiting. He has been waiting since 1969. For more than half a century, he has been wondering … questioning ...

According to ancient Greek mythology, there are five ages known as The Ages of Man, during which time humanity reaches its ...

Joann Pagano Weber stands in front a shop window on Main Street in Saugerties displaying portaits of local people that she created for National Poetry Month. (Photo by Lauren Thomas) Hey, how’s your ...

In a blurry photo from my first trip to Poland at 19, me and my godmother, one of my mother’s ten siblings, are laughing together, a thousand feet into the earth, in a 13th century chapel made ...