Happy holidays, and happy reading! All That We Ask of You Is to Always Be Happy by Bridget Bell (Cavankerry) If there has ever been a book of poetry that addresses postpartum depression as directly as ...

A translation of the dohas of Rahim, general, poet, polyglot and bureaucrat in Emperor Akbar’s administration, that is erudite, enjoyable and edifying ...

According to a new study from Icaro Lab, delightfully titled “Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models,” rhyming couplets may be the skeleton key to ...

Contrary to popular belief, illuminated manuscripts were not exclusively made in Europe—one of the most impressive is from ...

Writing of Runnymede, an ancient meadow on the banks of the River Thames, in his 1642 poem Coopers Hill, John Denham casts an ...

The last two decades have transformed the ecology of literary culture worldwide, but perhaps nowhere more dramatically than ...

Back in the 18th century, women didn’t have a lot of options outside of the marriage market. While in America there were plenty of “Boston marriages” between women of means, it wasn’t always a likely ...

At last count, Neil Young has released at least 25 albums and seven box sets since 2000. His newest set, “Official Release ...

The Chilean group Lastesis translates feminist theory into public performances. In 2019, they created perhaps the best example of a contemporary riposte to Apollo in the Daphne story, with their ...

Elisa Gabbert’s collections of poetry and essays include, most recently, “Normal Distance” and “Any Person Is the Only Self.” ...

Plato wasn't just criticizing Homer. He was competing with him, offering Greece a new mythology with new heroes.

The inner and outer forecasts don’t always match up. This short poem by Louise Glück starts out cold and stays that way for ...