Literature

Ever since the Enlightenment of the 18th century, it has become increasingly difficult to talk of myths and mythology in a world that increasingly craves science. And what this means ...

Both women were born within five days of each other in 1830. Both came from families prominent in ...

Though he died over 50 years ago, C.S. Lewis remains popular both as a writer of Christian apologetics ...

Anyone, at any age, can become a lover of literature and will be a better and happier person ...

This year marks the centennial of the Treaty of Versailles, formally ending World War I, that bloodbath which ...

“Arma virumque cano….” Those three words—“I sing of arms and the man”—open one of the great classics of ...

“Captain Blood.” For years, mention of the novel by Rafael Sabatini (1875–1950) about pirates in the Caribbean would ...

"Gulliver's Travels" show that it's possible for us to rise above the ideologies that divide us.

If you haven’t read David Horowitz’s latest book “Dark Agenda: The War to Destroy Christian America,” you should. Horowitz ...

The Holy Grail. What is it? Today, you can call something the Holy Grail of fill-in-the-blank. You can ...

Finally, Odysseus comes to the last of the nine temptations of the soul as represented in the Nine ...

In July 2019, Boris Johnson, the leader of the Conservative Party became prime minister of the United Kingdom. ...

The greatest of novelists—Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen, Mark Twain, and others—sweep us off to a time ...

In the 1945 movie “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn,” based on Betty Smith’s novel about immigrants living in ...

For over three decades, Reverend F. Washington Jarvis served as headmaster of Boston’s Roxbury Latin School, the oldest ...

WINCHESTER, England—When Jane Austen was buried in Winchester Cathedral in 1817 in Hampshire, England, the inscription on her ...

We left Odysseus at type Three on the Enneagram almost totally destroyed. His ship and crew were completely ...

If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? It ...

Some writers and teachers among us, praise be to all of them, are obsessed with writing, grammar, syntax, ...

NEW YORK—A growing movement is calling for the return of meter and rhyme in poetry in a bid ...

With its 843 acres, New York City's Central Park has long been a mecca for those seeking a ...

AUCKLAND, New Zealand—For nearly 4o years, children’s book illustrator and oral storyteller Lyn Kriegler has worked with some ...

There's a shared belief in many cultures, from ancient Europe to China, that a person's fortunes and misfortunes ...

It’s 399 B.C. Having been judged and condemned to death, Socrates, the ancient Greek philosopher, reflects on his ...

Finding a spouse has long been among the most commonplace activities and yet, at the same time, shrouded ...

"They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate ...

David Horowitz’s latest book "Dark Agenda" explores what he calls the left’s calculated efforts to create a godless ...