From Elon Musk to Jordan Peterson, a certain strand of conservatism has recruited the poetry of Homer and Dante in their culture war. Juan de la Corte’s The Fire of Troy, found in the collection of ...

When he died in Barcelona at 50 in 2003, the Chilean novelist Roberto Bolaño was already a legend in the Spanish-speaking world -- the most important writer to emerge from Latin America since , and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Political theory and strategy that works for American humans The novel is dead. But the epic poem -- book-length fiction, and its ...

Nothing out of the ordinary will happen at the Laughing Goat coffeehouse this Monday night. At 8 p.m. the venue will host the 1,040th consecutive installment of the weekly “So, You’re a Poet” poetry ...

It’s an epic poem, but it’s not hard to read. “I don’t ever read poetry,” David Pietrack admitted. “When I read this, it’s easy.” It’s a fable with illustrations, but it’s not a children’s book.

This article examines Ismene's nightmare in book 8 of Statius's Thebaid by contextualizing it within the epic's narrative, comparing it with the dream narrations of other female characters in epic ...

It's been almost 10 years since the last episode of 'Sarabhai Vs Sarabhai' got aired and now the popular epic sitcome is returning as a web series.The sitcom will now take a seven-year leap with the ...