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.

Greenland’s prime minister, Múte Egede, looked like he was being chased by an angry musk ox. “Mr. Prime Minister, have you ...

Having now turned the corner into 2025, among history’s echoes, standing in a darkened doorway one will come across the figure of T.S ... by Eliot’s The Hollow Men and Hitler’s Mein Kampf. One ...

There are many theories about what makes the classic American novel so great, and its ability to keep producing different ...

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 ...

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 ...

Many centuries ago St. Thomas Becket was slain at the altar in Canterbury on December 29, 1170, inspiring T.S. Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral ... Plenty on him in the rest of this newspaper so these ...