Poetry is not easy to compose, nor is it easy to write about. Like music, poetry requires a certain immersion into the composition one hears via their ...

There are several people like Ishi alive today. One of them is a child. In the medieval era, the Livonian language was spoken widely on the Latvian coast, but it’s spent the past thousand years being ...

I was also gripped by Ian McEwan’s What We Can Know (Cape, £22) – a philosophical novel masquerading as a bizarre dystopia of ...

Writing about a son’s vigil at his dying father’s bedside, Georgi Gospodinov examines what parents and their children reap and sow.

THE action in the two plays by Terence Rattigan that make up the double bill called “Separate Tables,” at the Music Box, takes place in a seaside resort hotel in southern England. This is quite an ...

Baghdad-born Ali Anwar has translated the Seven Voyages of Sinbad into Welsh, after 48 years of living in Wales ...

The Oscar-nominated musician opens up about his third collaboration with the filmmaker, the research behind the film's ...

At Silver Spring Diner in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, that magic comes with a side of the most incredible country fried steak you might ever encounter. The classic diner exterior beckons with its ...

The name “Stan Hywet” comes from Old English meaning “stone quarry,” which is what ... This charming garden entrance, flanked by lush ferns, silently judges the sad little archway you considered ...

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

Elton John turned his saddest song into a heartfelt tribute to Princess Diana. He performed it once at her funeral and never ...

What is loneliness and why do we feel it? Sophie and Neil discuss how feeling lonely can help us to survive ...