Sassoon and Owen capture in verse the sheer frightfulness of trench warfare; they are the supreme English war poets of their ...

James Alexander Mann, who was an aspiring writer and actor from Edinburgh, died just five days after his 21st birthday after ...

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In the Italian city where James Joyce wrote 'Ulysses,' the bookstore that Jewish poet Umberto Saba opened in 1919 has come ...

The poet says that while censorship in a dictatorship is nothing new, the same in a democracy feels like entering a new totalitarianism ...

A.J. Edwards went looking for the start of it all in “The Better Angels.”  Scout Tafoya is a critic and filmmaker who writes ...

Myra Sklarew, a poet and teacher who found inspiration for her graceful, meditative verses in the natural world, her Jewish heritage and her early years working with rhesus monkeys at a research lab, ...

Playing the masculine-feminine tug o’ war, a lightweight wool trench with a sun-pleated back transforms into a dress by ...

“For a long time,” writes Kathleen Jamie in her afterword to The Keelie Hawk (Picador £12.99), “I’ve wanted to write a suite ...

Woody Guthrie sang about the plight of migrant workers decades ago – Trump’s new war on immigrants is as short-sighted as it ...

I think there is something special about female lead novels with a twist to them. I enjoy anything that keeps me on the edge ...