Francisco Balagtas in 1838, is a staple of Philippine high school education. But sadly, it’s lost on today’s generation fed ...

Joseph Eveld’s journey, from adolescent cancer survivor to Columbia narrative medicine leader, illustrates how storytelling ...

Charles Crane/MDN Dr. David Bradley answers questions Wednesday, Sept. 10, from attendees at the unveiling of his donated collection of various translations of Dante Alighieri’s ‘The Divine Comedy’ at ...

Well, for this week’s column I have chosen another, “Oldie but goodie.” Daisies and other flowers of the field have long figured in the botanical image of dying and being buried. Flowers sometimes in ...

Learning to Speak Choctaw He rose like smoke from high grass and weeds that had taken the alley east of the Katy tracks and shuffled across the gravel road black hair, black eyes, a hundred creases in ...

The great, early-twentieth-century Greek poet Constantine P. Cavafy much preferred writing about a culture’s end-times rather than all of the times that came before. This was largely because he ...

Hermes with his mother Maia. Detail of the side B of an Attic red-figure belly-amphora, ca. 500 BC painted by Nikoxenos. Wikimedia Commons Public Domain Some of the Homeric Hymns are simple ...

Anna Sokolova and Georgio Russell have won the 2025 RBC/PEN Canada New Voices Award. The jury also selected five finalists: Edie Reaney Chunn, Emily Gaudet, Gwen Aube, Helen Han Wei Luo, and Mona’a ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. We’re going to hell in a handbasket. What with war, famine, plague and crazy house prices. The horrors overwhelm us, just as they did ...