The COVID pandemic and its aftermath have killed more than 1,220,000 people in the U.S. alone, and this has made everybody more aware of death’s omnipresence.

All Quiet on the Western Front (Little, Brown and Company, 1929), a semi-autobiographical novel authored by a German World ...

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William Horace Clifton (Bill), 90, went home to be with his Lord on May 2, 2025. Born January 8, 1935, in Walterboro, SC, he was married for 60 years to the late Garnell Ruff Clifton. Bill ...

In the study, the team systematically dug through preserved poems dating back to the year 618 CE and found hundreds of ...

The porpoise is critically endangered. Ancient Chinese poems reveal the animal’s range has dropped about 65 percent over the past 1,400 years.

America’s leading Catholic poet offers a stunning new verse translation of a play once read by Dante and forgotten by most — ...

Hellanicus of Lesbos, born c. 480 BC in Greece, was one of the earliest, most prolific Greek logographers of the 5th century ...

Each artist left behind their own distinctive mark on the painting, now housed in the National Gallery of Art in Washington. Giovanni Bellini, Feast of the Gods (1514/1529). Courtesy of National ...

She’s the queen of claptrap. The Rembrandt of rambling. TV’s undisputed poet laureate of nonsense. The character vacillates between every emotion, with unbridled rage and barely-concealed ...