Speaking of her late husband, Valerie Eliot once remarked “He felt he had paid too much to be a poet, that he had suffered ...

Stepping out of his apartment block in Paris’s chic sixteenth arrondissement, the filmmaker Robert Bristol narrowly avoids ...

Book titles that begin “The Treasury of …” suggest a box that you open to find jewels inside. The Treasury of Folklore: ...

This smartly presented story, the first in a dual language series that will feature international authors writing on aspects ...

An ambitious novel of ideas, Aurélien Bellanger’s Les derniers jours du Parti socialiste (The Last Days of the Socialist ...

Standing in the full / glare of the war, I’m a surface / reflecting its awesome light”, Oksana Maksymchuk declares in Still ...

are nothing like, just weather of a sort, discarnate, eyeless, waiting for a sign: a run of matter blackening the floor, the ache of rennet, hoofprints in the stone.

Sir Peter Russell (1913–2006) was King Alfonso XIII Professor of Spanish Studies at Oxford from 1953 until his retirement in 1981. He was also Director of Portuguese Studies, and the author of a ...

For some people, writing in a language other than their mother tongue presents an obvious advantage. No longer constrained by their usual grammatical and lexical norms, they unconsciously import turns ...

Early in Josephine Tey’s classic mystery The Daughter of Time (1951), Inspector Grant, laid up with a broken leg and vainly seeking distraction with a heap of the latest bestsellers, remarks ...

Australia has often been called a “new country,” but its poetry has seldom been thought of in these terms. Les Murray (1938–2019), still the country’s best-known poet, memorably styled himself as a ...