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 ...

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 ...

Thanks to all of you who emailed me following my column on Dec. 10. I am pleased beyond measure that poetry touches so many people. I had more responses to that column than anything I have written for ...

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.

SF Studios is set to co-produce and distribute “Kalevala: The Story of Kullervo,” a big-budget historical drama based on Finland’s national epic “Kalevala” which will be directed Antti J. Jokinen ...