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Michael Alexander, poet and broadcaster whose Anglo-Saxon translations were used in Kenneth Clark’s...
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 7 months agoMichael Alexander, who has died aged 82, was a translator, poet, academic and broadcaster whose...
Patricia Cornwell's 6 favorite books to read over and over again
The Week via Yahoo News· 6 months agoPatricia Cornwell. When you make a purchase using links on our site, The Week may earn a commission....
The Irrepressible Freshness of Robert Frost
The Dispatch via Yahoo News· 8 months agoRobert Frost. (Picture via Getty Images) When readers think of modernist poetry, chances are that T.S. Eliot’s masterpiece “The Waste Land” comes to...
'Perhaps the future of the world then was to women?' - Parade's End turns 100
Euronews via Yahoo News· 2 months agoIf the centenary is an appropriate anniversary for assessing a book’s staying power, then it’s...
The Age of Cultural Stagnation
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 3 months agoIt is the age of signing open letters, then issuing apologies for signing them a few days later; of fretting about the effect of AI on human creativity,...
Gerald Stern, prize-winning and lyrical poet, dies at 97
The Independent via Yahoo News· 2 years agoGerald Stern, one of the country’s most loved and respected poets who wrote with spirited melancholy...
The Secret History turns 30: the enduring cult appeal of Donna Tartt’s campus novel
The Independent via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWhy has no one made ‘The Secret History’ into a film? And does Donna Tartt really take her pet pugs...
With this Christmas classic, the audiobook was born
The Bergen Record via Yahoo News· 1 year agoSometimes it's the afterthought — not the thought — that counts. The Gettysburg Address? A two-minute addendum, by Lincoln, to someone else's lengthy...
Percival Everett Is Messing With You
The New Republic via Yahoo News· 3 months agoPercival Everett is a compulsive problem solver who doesn’t care much whether he ultimately arrives at a solution. As he told Paris Review seven years...
Poet and playwright Bernard Kops dies aged 97
Press Association News via AOL· 4 months agoPoet and playwright Bernard Kops has died “peacefully” surrounded by his loved ones at the age of 97, his family has announced. Throughout his career, he...