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 ...

When I meet Nineb Lamassu at England's Cambridge University, where he's a researcher, he transports us to his Middle Eastern homeland by opening his computer and playing me a recording of a man ...

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.