Pink Dust, a collection about aging and death, offers an optimistic vision of life as a continual act of reading.

By Aditya Mukherjee Wouldn’t we all do better by accepting that no human being will ever understand another?” This sentence from Graham Greene’s A Burnt-Out Case confronts one of the most enduring ...

First awarded in 1992, the Forward Prizes for Poetry are awarded for new poetry published in the U.K. and Ireland. For the ...

A poetry festival has been hailed as "beautiful, diverse and thought-provoking" by organisers. The Winchester Poetry Festival 2025, held in the city and online from Tuesday, October 2 to Sunday, ...

Discover the significant world events, notable birthdays, and notable deaths that occurred on November 4. Check what happened today in history here.

The 150th anniversary of Fort England Psychiatric Hospital makes it South Africa’s oldest psychiatric facility. Rory du ...

Day After the Waste Land” is part graphic novel, part adult children’s book, and a full reimagining of T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” — and Eliot probably would've hated it, according to the author.

Philip Klay is a novelist and essayist. His 2014 collection of stories, Redeployment, received the National Book Award for Fiction. His novel Missionaries was named one of the Wall Street Journal’s 10 ...

The McCooey surname has Armagh roots, deriving from the Gaelic name Mac Cumhaigh, meaning “son of Cú Mhaighe,” which ...

There can be no greater irony than the fact that while the East once showed the West the way to “Shanti” (peace), sections of people in the East are now embracing mindless revelry and noisy ...

Every burst of a firecracker by children today stirs something deep within me. It brings back a flood of cherished memories ...