Chief among the insights we gain from reading history is that what we read is often relevant to what we are experiencing ...

A new translation of "The Iliad" pairs well with Ukranian war poetry and a documentary on its suffering people.

Nine months ago, Azad said goodbye to his family and travelled 8,000 miles across the globe, where he swapped America’s rural ...

After a record defeat in Britain’s last election, many Conservatives decided that they needed to be more populist. Their ...

Richard, who has extensively written about his late uncle, Robert Graves, the war poet and author, emphasised the importance ...

Richard Kroehling’s documentary presents a mixture of poets’ responses to the Holocaust and argues for the importance of the ...

John McCrae's beautiful words written amid the horrifying bloodshed of the First World War linked the poppy and remembrance ...

After a short cinematic run, Kate Winslet’s new World War II movie, Lee, has finally arrived on streaming. The biographical drama stars the Oscar winner as real-life Vogue fashion model turned Second ...

Amsterdam — Many Sudanese are mourning the death of the famous poet and dramatist Hashim Siddig ... after he graduated there himself in 1974 and studied acting at a British institution. He was ...

William Orpen’s paintings from the Western Front are as powerful and poignant as the war poetry of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried ...

This has not prevented Shylock from capturing the popular imagination, even as the real-life inhabitants of Venice’s Jewish ...