Halpern, who founded Ecco Press and co-founded the literary magazine Atreus with Paul Bowles in Morocco, finds meaning in memory and detail of the past, such as a long-gone game of catch in the San ...

While ancient Greek bards were revered, melodic keepers of memory, Benjamin West’s The Bard (1778) gives us something far fiercer: the last Welsh poet hurling a mountain-top curse at an invading king.

Explore the most influential and best fantasy books of all time, ranked by their impact and popularity, from Odyssey to The ...

Narrative medicine is an interdisciplinary approach to patient care, in which clinicians engage with literature, philosophy, ...

Hollywood has a habit of rendering complex literary heroes into one-dimensional figures. Nolan’s The Odyssey dodges this trap.

Look, it’s happened to all of us: Late one night, you’re on the couch, an overwhelming menu of Netflix shows radiates unwatched on the screen, and you snatch up a handheld repository of short, ...

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was one of the first people to hear ‘The Ruined Cottage’, read aloud to him on a visit to the Wordsworths in 1797, and he later described it as ‘one of the most beautiful poems ...

A long time ago, an avant- garde filmmaker set out to make his third, and what he thought could be his last, commercial movie. His first attempt, a dystopian fantasy, had flopped. His second, a ...

‘Tam o’ Shanter’ first appeared as a lengthy footnote in Francis Grose's Antiquities of Scotland (1791) after Robert Burns convinced Grose to include the ruined Alloway Kirk in his volume, and its ...

An epic poem about the Trojan war is merged with the domestic heartbreak of the scholar who discovers it in this ambitious, structurally problematic novel In Yann Martel’s fifth novel, a Canadian ...