Literature

"I am human, and I think nothing human is alien to me." —Terence, Roman playwright Nothing human is alien to me? Really? What do we think about that statement? True ...

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 ...

In 1910, G.K. Chesterton’s book “What’s Wrong With the World” was published, and the title did not include ...

Many of the settlers could never have owned land in Europe. This new advantage led to the tradition ...

Truth. Beauty. Timelessness. These three elements exist in any great work of art. Though most of us are ...

Ever since the Enlightenment of the 18th century, it has become increasingly difficult to talk of myths and ...

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 ...