Seattle satirist Maria Semple’s breakthrough novel is a flurry of contemporary, epistolary wit. Passive aggressive e-mail ...

Heather Leigh explores this year's edition of The Mays, a literary anthology of work from students from Oxford and ...

In a 1930 letter, Robert Frost stated his priorities as memorably — which, for Frost, meant as mischievously — as possible: ...

All the books on the longlist for the Walter Scott book prize - The 12 will be cut down to a shortlist in May, with the ...

Twelve novelists have been longlisted for a £25,000 award named after a famous Scottish writer. The judges of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction will narrow the 12 down to a shortlist in ...

But all poetry, even funny poems and short poems for kids, has a common thread: The poets who write it are interpreters. They take an honest look at events and emotions and boil them down to some ...

Ceasefire,” his most famous poem, invoked the “Iliad” in exploring his country’s sectarian strife. But his work wasn’t ...

Poet Kenneth Steven writes on Raasay, an island close to Skye once home to the great Gaelic bard Sorley MacLean. Kenneth describes the history of this 'fiercely traditional island', with its ...

Internationally acclaimed writer Mircea Cărtărescu was not admitted as a corresponding member of the Romanian Academy, falling “one vote short” in the admission procedure that took place on Wednesday, ...

Maya Angelou, a renowned novelist, actress, writer, poet, and civil rights activist, left behind a legacy and poignant pieces readers can revisit forever, with her work discussing identity, ...

Modern accounts of Sylvia Plath’s renowned work and legacy seek to highlight the author’s resilience through a decade-long ...

F. Scott Fitzgerald is remembered as one of the most influential American writers of the 20th century for “The Great Gatsby” ...