StringersHub on MSN4d
India: Indian students turn to poetry to learn Spanish
New Delhi, India - Some recite it, others write it, some even prefer to sing it, but what is clear is that poetry is a ...
The Nation on MSN1d
Beatriz Nascimento’s Histories of Afro-Brazilian Rebellion
The scholar, poet, and filmmaker devoted her life to sketching out a revisionist historiography of resistance in Latin ...
Michael Longley, 85, Northern Irish Poet of Nature and ‘the Troubles,’ Dies
Ceasefire,” his most famous poem, invoked the “Iliad” in exploring his country’s sectarian strife. But his work wasn’t ...
Merion West2d
Haunted by the Sonnet: Erica Reid’s “Ghost Man on Second”
“In [Erica] Reid’s Ghost Man on Second, the real ghost man floating through the pages is the sonnet.” I n listing the ...
Independent Florida Alligator1d
Food and poetry event celebrates Gainesville’s diverse community
Around 50 members of the Gainesville community gathered on Sunday to witness the exhibit introduced as“A Seat at the Table: ...
Hot Guys Don’t Journal—Hot Writers Do
Writers don’t classify themselves as hot guys—or hot girls—for that matter. However, there is something insightful in the ...
What a fourth-century drinking game tells you about contemporary China
The endless iterations of the Orchid Pavilion preface are both an emblem of Chinese culture, and a lens through which China views its past. In imperial China, prowess with a brush was a mark of ...
El País in English3d
Salman Rushdie: ‘Musk does not defend freedom of expression; he curates the discourse of the extreme right’
Indian writer speaks to EL PAÍS about his new relationship with death, what Netflix failed to reflect about ‘One Hundred ...
Greek Reporter6d
How Homer’s Epics Survived After the Fall of the Ancient Greek World
Homer's Epics, Iliad and Odyssey, brought the ideas of Greek civilization to the world, serving as the foundation of Western literature.
The unbeatable warmth of love letters
Texts, emails and DMs have made it easy to send a message to a beloved, but few things can beat the thrill of getting an ...
Jenny Erpenbeck: “There is a place in the world for socialism”
The German author, who won the 2024 International Booker Prize for her novel Kairos, and was recently at the Kerala ...