Literature

An extraordinary biography, “Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom” by David W. Blight seems to have captured Douglass's mind and heart as well as another human being can. And, like his subject, Blight ...

“The Supernormal Ability Cookie Kids’ Club” is a new young-teen book that parents will appreciate and kids will ...

Who’s the Insane One? Feng Shi from Qin State had a son who was a sweet and smart ...

Homer's “Odyssey” is, by common and universal consent, one of the greatest poems in the world, possibly the greatest. ...

I have talked in previous articles on the importance of myth and story, and that how we apprehend ...

On the Brink of Death Now hath my life across a stormy sea Like a frail bark reached ...

These days, William Cowper (1731–1800) isn’t likely to be found on anyone’s list of Top 20 English Poets. ...

Given that the recent days have been rightfully occupied by the remembering of the humans who never made ...

The journey of the soul. Ah! Our soul. That is a story that has fascinated us from the ...

Icelanders love books, both reading and writing them, and in recent years, translations of contemporary Icelandic literature have ...

They look like romances at first sight, and indeed you’d be forgiven for thinking so; the movies attest ...

This particular Veterans Day offers a time to reflect on another era when our nation was divided: the Civil War. ...

Jigong was an eminent monk of the Southern Song Dynasty (1127–1279) who was also known as Daoji. There ...

Matthew's Arnold's haunting poem, “The Buried Life,” describes our yearning to know our own heart.

If you want to write a good sentence, you must learn to love the full stop. Love it ...

In the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a man named Yufu. He did not want to live ...

The "Aeneid" by the Roman poet Virgil is an epic poem in 12 books that tells the story ...

Inspired by a rare hand-colored original from the Bavarian State Library in Munich, Taschen is reproducing “Theuerdank: The ...

James S. Robbins is the Paul Revere of America today. While Revere is known for his midnight ride in ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has mounted the most comprehensive exhibition possible of Delacroix on this side of ...

For $6,000 you can own an exclusive book detailing unprecedented insights into the story of Ferrari, including hundreds ...

This drama of reading is beautifully conveyed in Percy Shelley's short lyric, taken from his play Prometheus Unbound.

For a lecture course I teach at Brown University called “Love Stories,” we begin at the beginning, with ...

In the beginning was the Word. Or should that be Music? In Dryden's song, it is the power ...

In the Qing Dynasty, there was a person who lived in Chiayi State of Taiwan. His name was ...

At the time of the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was a man called Zhong Mou. He became an ...

Near the end of the Qing Dynasty, there was a village in Northeast China where a family surnamed ...