The Ardee WW1 Commemoration took place last Sunday 8 November at 11am at the Fair Green in Ardee. The monument at the Fair ...

Poems by a Cumbrian soldier killed in action in the First World War have been saved and are being celebrated in a new book.

Two women have saved a war poet's work from being lost - twice over and more than 100 years apart. Only 24, Nowell Oxland ...

She had, indeed, in a sense, three brothers in the Confederacy, but they were half-brothers, with whom she had had little to do, and anyway the Civil War was notoriously a great divider of the border ...

If I should die, think only this of me,” wrote English poet Rupert Brooke, in 1914. “That there’s some corner of a foreign ...

Translated by Bae Dong-keun | Arte | 704 pages | 45,000 Korean won In 1933, Nazi party members and students threw books into ...

As the Great War approached, there was in Britain's salons and schools a kind of intoxication. Young men--poets, clerks, sons ...

There are many tales of incredible heroism and fortitude during wartime, but not all of them are to be found on the battlefield. A new book published to coincide with this year's Remembrance Day ...

Paul Kingsnorth is a novelist and a critic, an environmental activist and a convert to Eastern Orthodoxy. His new book is ...

On this day in 2016, Leonard Cohen, one of the world's most influential songwriters, died after suffering a fall in his Los Angeles home.

This week brings new releases from Joy Williams, Simon Winchester and Tracy K. Smith, among other talented writers.

Last week, as commercials promoting a new Sting album showed us a much younger Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner singing, “I hope ...