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

The nonfiction winner considers Gaza and the West; other winners include Rabih Alameddine, Daniel Nayeri, Patricia Smith ...

A little over 200 years ago, the Greeks began their war of independence from the Ottoman Empire, which had conquered most of ...

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

National Book Awards judges honored authors worldwide on Wednesday night, including Egyptian-Canadian novelist-journalist ...

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

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

SCAFELL Pike is England's highest mountain. Standing at 978 metres (3,209 feet), it is part of the Lake District National Park in Cumbria. The peak is central to many fascinating stories. One such ...

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

It’s an improbable, inhospitable country marooned off south-east Asia and containing nearly all of the world’s deadliest ...

From ambitious dramas to a TV series inspired by the Danske Bank scandal, Baltic projects look for inspiration in the most ...

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