From Elon Musk to Jordan Peterson, a certain strand of conservatism has recruited the poetry of Homer and Dante in their culture war. Juan de la Corte’s The Fire of Troy, found in the collection of ...

As Toby Barlow points out, epic poetry all but died out some time ago, and there hasn't been any hint that it's coming back. So for someone who works in advertising (he handles the Ford Motor Co.

Roque Raquel Salas Rivera’s epic poem “Algarabía” follows the journey of its protagonist, Cenex, on the Isle of Algarabía, a fantastical projection of Puerto Rico, referred to in the poem as ELA ...

Tracen Wassily wasn’t initially sold on the hefty “Epic of Gilgamesh,” a poem that dates back roughly 4,000 years. “At first, I didn’t like it,” said Wassily, who is 16 years old. “But what I wrote ...

New translations of the “Aeneid,” “Beowulf” and other ancient stories challenge some of our modern-day ideas. By Talya Zax The “Aeneid,” Virgil’s epic about the founding of Rome by the Trojan refugee ...

Now that the weather is warming, it’s time for the epic-length poems to be found, ‘Cause it’s National Poetry Month, just as sure as there’s piled-up snow on the ground. It’s nice out! It’s raining!

Gather round, readers, and I shall tell you a tale of childhood, chaos and candy. Of a book that revisits the wonder and whimsy of youth. A tale of ferocious 5-year olds, grumpy geezers and terrible ...

The tension between the novelistic attention to psychology and detail and the epic tendency to breadth of scale and form ...

Since 2015, following the Charleston Church Massacre, protest groups and municipalities across the United States have removed over 150 Confederate memorials. If toppling a statue is an exclamation ...

Sonawane says, poetry unlike prose, is a durable vessel for truth. “A novel has a relatively short life,” he says with the calm certainty of someone who has measured time in decades of public service.