Adam Plunkett’s Love and Need offers something of a recuperation of Robert Frost by reminding us that the poet's fierceness ...

Cooper and Amelia Opdyke Jones,” an exhibition now on view at the New York Transit Museum in downtown Brooklyn, reveals how ...

John A. Martino and Michael P. O'Kane's historical novel 'Olympia and the Birth of the Olympic Games' takes readers to the ...

Every war begins in blind folly and ends in unimagined suffering. This is true of all wars but especially of the First World War. Its catalysts were so trivial and its consequences so apocalyptic that ...

Nearly 2,500 years after it was originally staged, this modern twist on Ajax reminds us soldiers continue to experience violence in the ranks.

At the Grolier Club, in midtown, a collection of imaginary volumes—the play within “Hamlet,” Hemingway’s lost first novel—are ...

In light of recent events, it might be a good time to remember a very simple truth: Nazis are ALWAYS the bad guys. By Scott Roxborough, Patrick Brzeski In the wake of Elon Musk’s Hitler-like ...

Homer (c. 8th–7th century BC) is one of the most renowned poets of ancient Greece and is traditionally credited with composing two of the most significant epic poems in Western literature: The Iliad ...

Chihaya’s version of bibliophobia grew out of the fear of one book in particular—the monograph that her career demanded and ...

Take, for instance, the classics scholar and critic Daniel Mendelsohn’s 2017 memoir, An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic, about how reading Homer alongside his 81 ... Byatt’s novel about ...

An entertaining guide to history's most influential and inspiring poets – from Homer and Sappho to Shakespeare and Frank O'Hara – and how they can teach us to better understand the world around us.

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