Before the winner of the £25,000 TS Eliot Prize is announced on Monday, our critic rounds up the runners and riders. Read on for our tip ...

In his Collected Poems, his verse becomes an index for a life lived between ambition, pain, and disappointment.

The counting and classifying of story lines is a venerable literary pastime ... literary allusions — from Percy Bysshe Shelley and T.S. Eliot to Patricia Highsmith — giddily pile up.

T.S. Eliot's The Hollow Men introduced us to a 'whimper' of despair, while Hitler's Mein Kampf foreshadowed catastrophe. What ...

George Orwell was the most influential British writer since 1945. Many of his neologisms – such as ‘Big Brother’, ‘Thought Police’, ‘Room 101’, ‘Newspeak’, ‘memory hole’, ‘doublethink’ and ...

Mr. Prime Minister, have you spoken to President Trump yet?” I asked as he fled a lunchtime news conference on Tuesday in the ...

With all due respect to property taxes and the prominent cruise line, few locals have likely thought ... lightweight nuclear bombs behind enemy lines. And a new World Health Organization ...

When James Joyce's short story collection Dubliners was published on June 15th 1914 it was the end of a long and tortuous ...