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

When the seventh day dawned the storm from the south subsided. . . . I looked at the face of the world ... all these pieces, a poem began to take shape. Now known as the Epic of Gilgamesh, this ...

Look in my face while I snuff the sidle of evening, | Talk honestly, for no one else hears you, and I stay only a minute longer.” Buy at Amazon Yes, “The Waste Land” is Eliot’s best-known poem, and ...

With a starry cast including Jeff Bridges, Bryan Cranston and Dave Bautista, writer-director Robert D. Krzykowski is counting ...

I believe I had the setting in mind before anything else, since the island was inspired by an actual place I visited. I ...

The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “I wonder if I will miss the moss,” by Jane Mead, and his own poem “Mother ... new translation of a modern epic—first published, in ...

A 16th-Century epic poem based on the life of popular Hindu god Ram is at the centre of a huge political row in India. Ramcharitmanas is counted by many scholars to be among the world's greatest ...

The famous poem has been a guide for readers from Virginia Woolf to inmates in New Jersey, as Orlando Reade reveals in What ...

Beowulf is one of the foundational texts of English literature, an epic poem about a warrior named Beowulf who takes on a fearsome monster named Grendel, then G ...

We caught up with Iran-based artist Ali Banisadr ahead of his first solo exhibition in Shanghai at Perrotin's gallery outpost ...

Returning to Greece with the historical drama 'The Return' proved an emotional affair for Juliette Binoche, Ralph Fiennes and ...

The poet who was inspired to create masterpieces like the unparalleled *Axion Esti*, drawing on his experiences in Albania in ...