Beowulf is an Anglo-Saxon epic poem about the defeat of Grendel – a creature whose exact form is still debated. Depending on ...

When I came back from Iraq, I carried with me the images of landscapes littered with ruined bodies. To deal with the stew of ...

The famous poem has been a guide for readers from Virginia Woolf to inmates in New Jersey, as Orlando Reade reveals in What ...

A new translation of "The Iliad" pairs well with Ukranian war poetry and a documentary on its suffering people.

Malik Muhammad Danish is a young (serving) Pakistani diplomat with a passion for languages and literature —- ‘a polyglot, at ...

The line was like some of my favorite poems of hers—shameless about what we’d been told we should be ashamed of. Sin vergüenza. Today, when Childless Cat Ladies are boldly defending their choices, ...

Chief among the insights we gain from reading history is that what we read is often relevant to what we are experiencing ...

Our critic A.O. Scott walks you through a poem that speaks to his mood right now. It’s called “Party Politics,” but it’s not about those parties, or those politics. Isabella Cotier By A.O ...

Musicians have long taken inspiration from poetry for their work; here are four rock songs that pull from well-known poems.

In Trump, Evangelicals have found a candidate who allows to foment hate, all in the name of God, writes Donovan McAbee.

Some of the hardest puzzles in Silent Hill 2 require a deep knowledge of poem structure ... or Snake in the center to show who is burdened with sin. Their choice may just impact the ending.

Introduced by Rosa Alcalá, the Woodberry Poetry Room’s T.S. Eliot Memorial Reading spotlighted Cecilia Vicuña’s creative work.