Some plays are like novels. They are complex, wide in scope and epic in nature. Others, like “Mary Jane,” playing through ...

Mentions of the critically endangered Yangtze finless porpoise in ancient Chinese poetry have revealed missing information about the habitat of the world’s only freshwater porpoise Almost 300 ...

Poetry in the 21st century is both ubiquitous and oddly peripheral. Verses are displayed on subway walls, recited on momentous occasions, and served up in giant fonts on social media, but rarely ...

Strauss was deeply inspired by Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff’s poem ... reflexive mood of Strauss, Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 brought a lighter, waltz-like, and more joyous tone to the program ...

If you’ve ridden the Toronto subway lately, you may have stumbled upon an unexpected bit of poetry in the ad space on the car. Maybe it was a haiku by Martin Gomes about the eternal nature of ...

It was like a single long poem, containing infinite mood swings. The jump from 129 ... In Hass’s poem, the metaphysical and discursive tone soon gives way, via the “clown-/ faced woodpecker ...

So, if you’re looking for the perfect words for your loved one this year, why not share one of these poems, which attempt to express the wonder and complexities of romantic love. If you make a ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Where John Wilson goes, adventurous listeners would do well to follow. Showing an eclectic taste, Wilson ...

Richard Strauss’ fanfare from his tone poem “Also sprach Zarathustra” (Thus Spoke Zarathustra) is inexorably linked to Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film “2001: A Space Odyssey.” With timpani ...

And although his poems have a brutal side to them, there is an unmistakable tone of hope. In “Shadows,” he speaks of escape, but not in the cowardly sense. He is escaping past sorrows in ...