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 ...

The French director Alain Guiraudie’s latest film, a bent kind of murder mystery, presents life at its basest and gamiest. By Wesley Morris This gimmicky thriller starring Bill Skarsgard and ...

March 12, 2025 • Ciara Totton reads a poem by Dennis Held ...

‘After she was gang-raped, kicked and beaten and left to die on the floor of the filthy boathouse’ are the disturbing words that begin Joyce Carol Oates's novella, Rape, A Love Story. In the ...

According to the book Stories of Best Loved Christmas Songs the original text of O Holy Night was written in 1847 by a French poet named Placide Cappeau ... Truly he taught us to love one another; his ...