William Shakespeare needs no introduction. It is impossible to imagine English literature without this literary giant.

Lehmann’s Rilke is a thing of wonder. It’s something we’re compelled to believe, never mind its impossibility. The final poem ...

Here are the year’s most notable collections of verse as chosen by our poetry columnist. Credit...Photo illustration by Sebastian Mast Supported by By Elisa Gabbert Elisa Gabbert’s collections of ...

Remembering Atal Bihari Vajpayee on his birth anniversary: from being a poet and music collaborator with Jagjit Singh to leading India through the Pokhran nuclear tests, here are lesser-known and ...

What does it mean for God not only to take on flesh but to take on a very specific and highly individualized human ...

The fiction and non-fiction titles set to dominate group chats, book clubs and bedside tables in the months ahead.

By the end of my life, there may be no one left who speaks like my father outside the hollers and the one-horse towns.

By the time he died in October 2025, Marcel Weyland’s travels had taken him from Poland to the furthest reaches of the Earth, and back again. He had been honoured by the governments of Australia, ...

Cumbria arguably has one of the best dining scenes in the U.K.—taste it for yourself at the three Michelin-starred ...

Rest in peace, esteemed RKA madam. Your presence endures in the pages you wrote, the students you shaped, and the quiet brilliance you gifted to our literary world.

Judith Ara Shereikis (née Pigman) of Evanston, IL, died on November 27, 2025.  Judy, as she was called, suffered a brain ...

An inspirational song written to give carers a voice was performed for the first time at a Mayoral Reception for a choir ...