Welcome mats bearing the legend “difficult” and “allusive” are the ones often placed by critics at the door of T. S. Eliot’s ...

T S Eliot begins his most famous poem with the lines, ‘April is the cruellest month.’ I wonder where that leaves July this year. Could July be the cruellest month instead? July has begun as a very sad ...

Samuel Johnson quipped that even the admirers of John Milton’s epic never wished it “longer than it is.” But “Paradise Lost” reshaped English literature.

Poetry has been an essential part of many countries’ popular culture for centuries. Italy, Russia, Iran, Chile, Poland, and Nicaragua are good examples, to name just a few. In these places, professors ...

A child who grows up amid such relentless trauma carries wounds that no treaty can heal. Even if the guns fall silent, what future can there be for a generation that has known nothing but siege, ...

Declan Lynch’s celebration of John Giles and his view that the RTÉ panel were the best on the planet (‘Thank you, John Giles, for putting brains over banter’, June 29) took me back to 2002, when my ...

Yet many welfare states have been built the world over without an ideology of national security following in their wake.

In Ancient Egypt, 1,500 years before Christ, cats were not only companions but afforded almost godly status. In a more practical sense, cats have proved extremely useful to live alongside us in their ...

If you missed the easily avoidable consternation, a few quotes from Shapiro about the prospect of allocating state money for new stadiums were improperly framed on Sunday.

Under a new law, Louisiana will offer students with the highest ACT scores up to $12,000 annually to cover college tuition. Fewer than 900 students are expected to qualify.