Women writers dominate the fiction shortlist for Scotland’s National Book Awards, which organisers said showcase the “dazzling variety” of work being produced. The awards, presented by The Saltire ...
Taylor Swift’s latest record, ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ (AP ... people who turn up in A&E with unexploded Second World War bombs inexplicably lodged in their intestinal passages ...
It all began in June 1797, when Coleridge summoned the Wordsworths from their retreat at Racedown Lodge, deep in remotest Dorset ... reversals of massacre and war that ensued. By the mid-1790s, many ...
Michael Korda writes a beautiful book in remembrance of the World War I poets whose work he loved. We hope you’re enjoying ...
A new translation of "The Iliad" pairs well with Ukranian war poetry and a documentary on its suffering people.
Chief among the insights we gain from reading history is that what we read is often relevant to what we are experiencing ...
Lacking formal training in medicine or nursing, Walt Whitman nonetheless realized ‘the simple matter of personal presence, ...
The birthplace of war poet Wilfred Owen has gone on the market. Born in 1893 in Oswestry, Shropshire, Owen enlisted in the Army in 1915 and witnessed the trench warfare of World War One firsthand.
His new book of poetry, "Forest of Noise," completed over the last year of war, begins with these words. "Every child in Gaza is me. Every mother and father is me. Every house is my heart.