I began teaching Australian literature not long after the death of Alec Derwent (A.D.) Hope (1907-2000). Despite Hope’s ...
He has written thousands of haikus and limericks about the news, he estimates. “The stories choose me,” he said.
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As part of our buildup to the 2026 FIFA men’s World Cup in the United States, Canada and Mexico, we are publishing excerpted chapters from The Soccer 100, The Athletic’s definitive book on the 100 ...
The ploy occasionally paid off; the London Daily Mirror described the Auto-Beatnik’s poetry as “better than most of the stuff that gets published in avant garde magazines.” Lately, this kind of junk ...
Colbert has always been a little deeper than the hosting job really called for,' writes columnist Colin McEnroe.
With Yáng Shuāng-zǐ’s historic International Booker win for Taiwan Travelogue, a first for a Mandarin novel, global readers are beginning to discover Taiwan’s rich literary culture and the everyday li ...
Iran’s claimed drone interception has renewed attention on Tehran’s military capabilities after months of bombardment.
There is a short story by Gabriel García Márquez, Nobel laureate, master of the human comedy and its agonies, called “I Just ...
Confucius worked out office politics. Aristotle understood persuasion. Epictetus invented modern therapy. Seven ancient books ...
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