For years, poetry was said to be fading into the background — confined to slim volumes on dusty shelves or to academic circles far removed from everyday life. Yet across Europe, and increasingly in ...

Love Goes NorthJulie McNeill, Luath, £8.99A NEW collection by the Scottish poet Julie McNeill, Love Goes North, is well worth a read for both budding poets and that once fabled and much sought after ...

Tauranga writer Catherine Eaton launched her autobiographical novel, Breath of a Rose, at Turning Point Trust on February 12. The launch coincides with the 30th anniversary of the community mental ...

On Mirza Ghalib's death anniversary, a glimpse of the poet at his passionate best and the life and times that shaped his 'mizaaj' ...

Book of the Day: Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino is a rare work that transcends traditional storytelling to become a philosophical exploration of imagination, memory and perception. For those ...

Black History, Present Tense, an artistic forum to support Black history and authors during Black History Month.

If you're tired of politicians injecting fascism directly into your personal American life, maybe it's time for you to think ...

Award-winning novelist, playwright and educator Lina Brockdorff, a leading figure in Maltese literature and a lifelong advocate for the Maltese language, has died at the age of 95, her family has ...

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Books & the Arts / Thomas Pynchon’s America. Benjamin Kunkel If God had a personality, what would it be like? The two most ...

As the perfect pigmented wax column emerges with the twist of a bullet, that new lipstick feeling can transform the stodgiest of adults into a gleeful child for a split second, a moment well worth the ...

William Wordsworth's "Quote of the Day" highlights the profound value of "little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and ...