As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine grinds, philosophers, poets, anarchists and soldiers contemplate what they have lost, and ...

He was yesterday’s idea of a modern man: strong but vulnerable, brooding until he had something profound to say, deeply ...

Ancient Greek athletes fought in brutal contests of the ancient Olympics, where sacred honor and civic pride shaped modern ...

The Divine Comedy, the poet’s tour of the Christian afterlife, is filled with strikingly modern touches—and a poetic energy ...

New Baltic projects to watch include TV series inspired by the Danske Bank scandal, documentary about personal loss and an ...

At the beginning of the twentieth century, the country’s literature was widely considered provincial. Then Malcolm Cowley set ...

Lubrin, the author of Code Noir, which won the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, and The Dyzgraphxst, which won the 2021 Griffin Poetry Prize, pays tribute to her mother in her latest book, The World ...

A compelling creation myth was a must for every ancient civilisation, but Rome decided that one just wasn’t enough. In myth ...

The family of enslaved potter David Drake — known as “Dave the Potter” — has reclaimed two rare stoneware jars he created in ...

Royal High School Bath students made history personal as they discovered their own family connections on the battlefields of ...

Douglas Century's offers the rivieting story of the 23-year-old heroine who died while trying to save Hungarian Jews.

Greece's island of Samos was the birthplace of Pythagoras and its fascinating history goes back to the myth of the Argonauts ...