Literature

Throughout human history, involuntary exile was often a common punishment—a means of getting rid of troublesome citizens. The Italian Casanova was forced into exile after being charged with indecency. Napoleon ...

Education is a journey, and, as with any journey, there must be some initial idea or inkling of ...

A white tomb overlooks the sea on a mountain in Samoa. It is the final resting place of ...

Many of our modern presidents have written books. When running for office, they frequently publish political manifestos outlining ...

Very recently, I hosted a live online poetry event for New York’s The Society of Classical Poets (SCP). ...

My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life ...

According to ListChallenges, for the last 50 years the Bible has been the most read book in the ...

The quality of reading is closely connected to the quality of the thing read—both the written material and ...

When the Beatles crooned “Love is all you need” in 1967, they coined an anthem for the flower ...

When I left graduate school long ago without earning my doctorate, one of my first thoughts was “Now ...

RAVENNA, Italy—As she has each evening for the last eight months, Giuliana Turati opened her well-worn copy of ...

I am a lover of essays. Every morning, shortly after dawn, I sit at my laptop, coffee at ...

Many years ago, I hired a young man, Kevin, to help out part-time during the summer in my ...

Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876–1958) almost wound up dead just like one of her own characters. On the morning ...

Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so ...

In our Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson wrote of self-evident truths “that all men are created equal, that ...

Since the 18th century, the printed word has influenced the course of American history. From the founding of the ...

Tom Brokaw’s inspiring book “The Greatest Generation,” about those who came of age during the Great Depression and ...

Whenever I write for The Epoch Times or other outlets about books, which is frequently, a reader or ...

In 1886, a struggling 27-year-old physician named Arthur Conan Doyle made a fateful decision that was intended simply to ...

On the cover of "Too Long Ago," there is a black-and-white photo of the happiest 4-year old boy ...

With the hubbub about Mike Lindell as yet another victim of cancel culture, I decided to read his ...

  In John Keats’s poems, death crops up 100 times more than the future, a word that appears ...

One of my best friends in high school was a teenage Shirley Temple. Just seeing this girl was ...

Early in March, I was sucker punched by a Russian. A dead Russian, as a matter of fact. ...

In writing “The Time Machine” 125 years ago, Herbert George Wells not only invented the catchphrase “time machine,” ...

Virginia Woolf asks us—we hear her own voice, by way of a BBC recording—“How can we combine the ...