Literature

Most journalism is ephemeral. The news reports, opinion columns, and commentaries on sports, fashion, health, and dining are brushed aside by tomorrow’s headlines and shifting interests. Here today and gone ...

When was the last time you read a book that got you started with a tattered map scratched ...

A widely published translator of ancient Latin texts, a former high-ranking government bureaucrat, and an incredible poet who ...

The 1619 Project’s massive success and wholesale acceptance by millions of readers, as well as its propagation into ...

A new biography by Jason L. Riley called “Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell” focuses on the critical ...

“When I was a boy of fourteen,” Mark Twain once noted, “my father was so ignorant I could ...

“All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and ...

Is loneliness our modern malaise? Former U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy says the most common pathology he saw during his ...

Classics Meditations By Marcus Aurelius It’s doubtful that Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius envisioned his personal notes would shine ...

A member of Congress wakes one night and finds Lucifer standing at the foot of his bed and ...

Do we want to be better people? Do we want our character to improve? And do you want ...

What distinguishes a good thriller novel from the best? Brad Thor. He’s been hailed as the “undisputed king ...

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless ...

In “Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama,” the hefty volume once used by my Advanced Placement ...

Spying is a risky profession. For the 14th-century English undercover agent-turned-poet Geoffrey Chaucer, the dangers—at least to his ...

Anyone with a mild interest in both the Bible and the Chinese language and characters might want to ...

Mark Twain ends the “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” with these words: “And so there ain’t nothing more to ...

“What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, ...

Traditions help form the structure and foundation of society, help define our past, shape us today, and provide ...

Math is not often associated with poetry, but it should be. “Poetry,” from the Greek “poiesis,” meaning “to ...

Though the England of his time was famous for its eccentrics, one man in particular captured the attention ...

You may know the story. President Lincoln, frustrated in his effort to end slavery while preserving the Union, ...

Edgar Allan Poe was “doomed to seethe down his soul in a great continuous convulsion of disintegration, and ...

Television’s Fred Rogers, the creator and chief actor of “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood,” won accolades and fame for his ...

In Part 1 of this article, we looked at how Keats in his poem “On First Looking Into ...

There is a seasickness that is more like a spell than a sickness. It is a yearning, a ...

When we think of contemporary heroes, figures we admire for their courage when confronted by physical danger or ...