Vālmīki’s epic poem “The Rāmāyaṇa” is a great work of literature and a treasure of Indian culture — but its political and ...
Heather Lende, Alaska's previous Writer Laureate, shares a poem read on a cold, dark night during a dinner with friends.
A lustrous scion of fin-de-siècle Vienna, she was born Alma Maria Schindler, the daughter of the operetta singer Anna Bergen ...
By CAROLYN BROWN Staff Writer Peter Gizzi, professor of poetry at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, recently won the ...
The pleasing peal called to my mind a poem that raises up something no less ... St. Irenaeus had in mind when he said "the glory of God is man fully alive." Aesthetic achievement aside, is there ...
In Milton’s epic, Satan is an angel who becomes resentful when God announces ... Epic poems are more complex than they are often given credit for. They tell us of the failings of great men ...
God knows we have. The French are always going on about it as well. And presumably every country loves watching television ...
Michael Leunig, one of Australia’s most loved cartoonists for more than half a century, is farewelled at Melbourne’s St ...
The travel writer and novelist on ignoring woke politics, smoking opium in Afghanistan and the book that broke his marriage ...
Published in 1982, when the Shehu Shagari-led Second Republic was floundering and, as usual, wobbling the country towards a seemingly bottomless pit, the collection consists of 36 poems largely ...
In his article “Loving the Law.” First Things, 1/1/12, R. R. Reno quotes Meir Soloveichk giving a podcast, the 10-Minute ...