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Michael Alexander, poet and broadcaster whose Anglo-Saxon translations were used in Kenneth Clark’s...
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 5 months agoMichael Alexander, who has died aged 82, was a translator, poet, academic and broadcaster whose...
The Irrepressible Freshness of Robert Frost
The Dispatch via Yahoo News· 7 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...
Patricia Cornwell's 6 favorite books to read over and over again
The Week via Yahoo News· 5 months agoPatricia Cornwell. When you make a purchase using links on our site, The Week may earn a commission....
'Perhaps the future of the world then was to women?' - Parade's End turns 100
Euronews via Yahoo News· 2 weeks 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· 1 month 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· 2 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· 2 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...