Literature

“Who listens to you?” Ask yourself that question and then answer it honestly. That question is what Kate Murphy, the author of the book “You're Not Listening: What You're Missing ...

Although Rare Disease Day is relatively unknown, it’s worth taking time to think about, and it’s worth having ...

Poets, like the rest of us, have varying attitudes toward death. Some urge resignation, others rage; some point ...

It's 2020. Another year, another decade. As we contemplate the future, we can always look to the past ...

The old house was jammed and noisy, with people standing elbow to elbow in the bar, drinking beer, ...

On New Year’s Eve, four of my five siblings, their spouses, and I gathered to ring in 2020. ...

Born in 1874 in England, as an adult he stood 6 feet, 4 inches tall and weighed close ...

When I was around 9 or 10 years old, my family was visiting my mom’s parents, who operated ...

Socialism in America is on the rise. A recent Gallup poll found that 45 percent of young American ...

2020. Now there’s a number with some heft to it. It offers gravitas, sounding like an Army tank or ...

Sitting on my desk is a 776-page volume of poetry that will in 2021 become a hoary centenarian. ...

Though a history major in college and a disciple of Clio (the muse of history) ever since, I was ...

Many of us approach the holiday festivities with high expectations, rose-colored visions of the pleasures the festivities might ...

William Blake, in his poem "Auguries of Innocence," wrote: Some are born to sweet delight And some are ...

In June, I had the pleasure of visiting New York and, courtesy of The Society of Classical Poets, ...

For two years in the early 1990s, I taught adult basic education twice a week in a prison ...

On Feb. 14, 2018, a gunman opened fire with a semi-automatic rifle at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High ...

"I am human, and I think nothing human is alien to me." —Terence, Roman playwright Nothing human is ...

For most of us, November is one of those in-between months, in this case a pause between October’s ...

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. L.P. Hartley, “The Go-Between” There it sat ...

Sometimes the impact of mass tragedy gets lost in the statistics. When death tolls are in the tens ...

Perhaps no myth—if myth it be—is more relevant today than the myth of the Great Flood that nearly ...

“John Donne—Anne Donne—Undone.” Fledgling poet John Donne (1572–1631) wrote these words in 1601 after his secret marriage to ...

Autumn, wrote poet and journalist William Cullen Bryant, is “the year’s last, loveliest smile,” and many of us ...

Given a choice, most of us are more inclined to read contemporary fiction than the classics. If we ...

In my last article for The Epoch Times, “What’s Wrong With the World,” I touched on the fact ...

“Hamlet” is arguably the most famous of William Shakespeare’s plays. It is the source of such famous lines ...