Literary CriticismHelen Vendler's new book follows on from her monograph on Seamus Heaney in providing some of the most enjoyable and robust criticism of poetry found anywhere today. Her unapologetic ...

My favourite episode from Monty Python's Flying Circus features a trio of inept Spanish Inquisitors charging a little old lady with heresy. She doesn't understand, is pummelled with soft pillows, and ...

If I had to name one poem, written in England in my lifetime, of unquestionable greatness, it would be Philip Larkin's "Aubade". It was published in the Times Literary Supplement on December 23, 1977.

In this spring of fear and torment, COVID Spring, a spring when we mourn our dead, Jews are saying Kaddish too many times. When I grew up in a casually Jewish household we lit yahrzeit candles, and ...

October 6 was National Poetry Day in the UK, and to celebrate, iNews editor Felicity Morse posted a brilliant poem that proves mansplaining has existed since before Twitter gave the term mainstream ...