Professor Arthur Bahr found that along with the tale “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” the poetry-filled book features ...

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We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: ...

The Drawings of Victor Hugo highlights the famous French writer's love of drawing in a show of 70 of his illustrations French ...

The unconventional artistic rebellion of surrealism may seem a long way removed from the sober, disciplined work of Marxist ...

When the French novelist died in 1885, he left behind The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Les Misérables – and a fragile cache of jaw-dropping art ...

Yet, of course, when, in 2005, I was invited to become a judge myself, I was flattered and accepted. At this time, the Man Booker Prize was in its heyday, its standing not yet squandered by the ...

The man next to me—looking as if he’s travelling ... but some are sublime, or surreal, or place you in a morally challenging position. (Passengers can request a time-out, or ask to exit ...

The author of “Salvage the Bones” and “Sing, Unburied, Sing” discusses the rewards of reading laborious novels.

Or to quote NASA in a rare moment of poetic description: “It’s as if all the world’s sunrises and sunsets are projected onto the Moon.” The eclipse begins at 11:57 p.m. ET Thursday night ...

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