It’s surely something to celebrate that the most famous Scot in world history is a poet. Royalty and dictators get far too much attention as ...

In Trump’s Situation Room, as on the fields of Ilium, those who wage war seem unable to experience the violence they inflict as ...

If I were to put a soundtrack on former president Rodrigo Duterte’s arrest upon his arrival from Hong Kong on March 11, the ...

March is Women’s History Month, but celebrating the women, well-known or not, who make our present existence more meaningful with the inspiration of their lives, should be a year-round ritual.

Following the death of his great friend Arthur Henry Hallam in 1833, the poet Alfred Tennyson began writing In Memoriam AHH, ...

In yesterday’s newsletter, Bill quoted Philip Larkin’s “Homage to a Government,” on Britain’s quiet post-WWII retrenchment: ...

Some of the most famous books we love today were once rejected by publishers. They were considered too different, ...

When Charlie Met Joan” is a fascinating tale of the life and times of Charlie Chaplin and focuses a sharp lens on the saga of ...

While on the subject of perceptions, it is relevant to recall the well-known, but pertinent, old parable that originated in ...

• Tales from the D-Dennis Coffey: March 21, Detroit Historical Museum, 5401 Woodward Ave., Detroit, hosted by Detroit ...

Michael Zev Gordon [Claire Shovelton] THEODORE Adorno’s famous dictum about the impossibility of poetry after Auschwitz was a ...