It was a soggy morning when we arrived in the city of Chengdu. After travelling all the way from Yunnan province, our ...

The hidden work of poet Alfred Tennyson has been revealed by researchers at the University of Oxford. A project led by Dr Michael Sullivan, from the university's English Faculty, used a combination of ...

Dorothea Mackellar’s poem from 1908, My Country, is famous in Australia despite ... it is worth asking why most contemporary Australian poetry is not more widely read and whether the federal ...

Many important ancient Greek women—poets, philosophers, and leaders— defied norms and shaped history for generations.

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The Russian influences in 'Chandni Raatein' are heavy, but the story feels Indian. A young Nestanka, played by actor Girija Godbole, stands on a bridge, singing the Nadiya Bairan Bhayi thumri in Raag ...

Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers,” by Adrienne Rich, is a blazing portrait of an artist and her work. Our critic A.O. Scott admires its ...

While London boasts some of the most famous museums and art galleries in the world, the rest of the UK is blessed with so ...

One literary rival said of Ernest Hemingway, “He has no courage, has never crawled out on a limb. He has never been known to ...

On March 20, the Jiangsu Performing Arts Group announced the lineup of its theater festival week in Beijing, with four stage ...

Early modern poetry was often circulated in miscellanies ... Let me not to the marriage of true minds' is now one of Shakespeare's most famous sonnets, but it doesn't seem to have been very ...