A new play brings into high relief the uncanny parallels between both the Revolutionary and Civil War periods and the ...

Simon Armitage has said he is “excited” to receive the freedom of the City of London, despite being a northerner all his life. The Poet Laurete, who was brought up in Marsden, West Yorkshire, attended ...

Tribeca Festival has revealed its lineup of features, including Miley Cyrus' visual album and a Leonardo DiCaprio-produced ...

Mario Vargas Llosa, who died this week, traveled through both literature and politics with a heedlessness you had to admire.

The exiled novelist on Russia’s ‘state terrorism’, whether he’ll ever return home – and the dark history behind his latest ...

Founded in 1996 by a pair of Black poets who felt isolated in predominantly white literary spaces, Cave Canem has become one ...

It’s the middle of April in twenty-five, and hardly a man or woman is now alive who knows by heart the opening of the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem that once ...

The apocalyptic punk classic "London Calling" by The Clash was more or less the result of old-school doom scrolling, according to Joe Strummer.

The sixth Mughal emperor, Aurangazeb, is the hot villain in Indian cinema now. But what do our favourite villains say about ...

How do we make sure that people are treated equally? If you were in power, how would you make sure people were treated equally? How can we make sure that all people can understand and claim their ...

Neptune, our planet of dreams and delusions, psychics, the spiritual and the supernatural, poetry, high art, high hopes and just plain getting high, is climbing out of the Jell-O ponds of Pisces and ...

Was distilled in a head that so badly wanted to undo me, It was as if she disinvented all the wars that festered and boiled At the edges of humanity for that sole purpose. But they are the ...