In late 19th century Scotland the Walnut man, a performer in a travelling circus, has become frustrated with his tired act. Instead he wants to perform his poems and songs to the crowds.

He selected as an example of the latter a man who in particular was regarded ... the patient historical scholar. His poetry has not that anatomical vision which sees the naked bone beneath the ...

At once haunted, sensual, explosive and intensely deliberate, this epic of intersectional identity is indispensable to contemporary ... “i’m not the kind of black man who dies on the news,” they write ...

Moreover, in the depths of the heavily guarded palace and in the presence of the emperor, it was impossible for the literati to mix tea with poetry, man with nature, or their inner world with an ...

Francis Ford Coppola's mob opera is the modern guy's indispensable guide to surviving with honor in ... Key Scene: When Wez, the deranged Mohawk man, erupts over the hood of Max's truck, it's a "boo" ...

For that campaign Peter Brimelow has written what may prove to be an indispensable book ... took on American history as their own. Numerous poems and stories have been written over the years ...

The plight of China’s delivery drivers is front-of-mind for the Chinese public. In August, CDT translated an account of one courier’s death in the summer heat, while a viral photograph of a Meituan ...

James Earl Jones, who has died aged 93, was hailed in the 1960s as the most exciting presence in the American theatre since ...

Hugo Ball—poet, philosopher, novelist, cabaret performer, journalist, mystic—was a man extremely sensitive to the currents of his time and carried in their wake. In February 1916 he founded the ...