I knew my father was a poet, but not that he had been a trailblazing Black columnist in the military during World War II.

Pearl star Mia Goth has joined the high-sailing cast of Christopher Nolan’s latest movie project, The Odyssey.

Among the millions of World War II veterans were multiple future U.S. presidents. Some only narrowly survived the experience.

A survey of the Polish poet’s work in the late 1940s and early 1950s highlights Miłosz’s attempt to grapple with the ...

Homer and Odysseus live in a world where there is no one morality common to all people. Odysseus is never condemned for being ...

Seamus Heaney’s love-poem to marriage, The Skunk, combines exile and erotica, moving from an American wilderness image ...

Cellphone messages provide a cherished link for Ukrainians whose partners are away fighting, but when the answers dry up, the ...

Paul Fussell’s 50-year-old survey of trench warfare deserves a new generation of readers, our book critic writes.

Author, historian and Vietnam veteran Marc Leepson's new book, "The Unlikely War Hero: A Vietnam War POW's Story of Courage ...

Photos donated to a Hungarian archive reveal the devastating aftermath of the siege of Budapest, which ended 80 years ago.

Gaza-born intellectual and refugee, Ramzy Baroud, argues that Gaza’s resistance has reshaped the conversation on popular ...

The killings fields of Normandy will once again host an awe-inspiring tribute to those who paid the ultimate price during the ...