For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets and translators to dissect the poems they’ve published in our pages. A ...

Erich Maria Remarque’s novel of World War I presented an unvarnished portrait of modern combat as chaotic nightmare.

Distribution and display have always been twin challenges for small publishers, more so for university presses, who have the added burden of perception.

In 'We Do Not Part,' Han Kang explores a friendship that certainly spans distance, and perhaps planes of existence.

Women, like elephant matriarchs, often lead in ways that prioritize the collective good. In communities worldwide, women are ...

So it was with great pleasure and solace that Santa Barbara residents gathered for the first 2025 Blue Whale Poetry reading ...

In his new book of poetry, […], the poet, translator, and ER doctor explores Palestinians’ experiences of exile and displacement—and the difficulty of healing amid the ongoing Nakba.

Certain grammatical rules never appear in any known language. By constructing artificial languages that have these rules, ...

Irish authors Paul Lynch, Colin Barrett, John Boyne, Sinéad Gleeson and Nuala O’Connor also among 71 nominees for €100,000 ...

Alexandra Petri is a Washington Post columnist offering a lighter take on the news and opinions of the day. Petri is the author of "A.P.'s US History: Important American Documents (I Made Up)" and ...

While everyone is obsessed with the country’s economic crash, the consequences of the linguistic crash we suffered from 1956 ...