Growing up amid fish n chip fryers and books I grew up surrounded by books. When someone who is in her sixties makes a ...

Leonard Cohen's songs are poems, but not every poem he wrote became a song. These are a mix of some of his definitive works that define Cohen as a wordsmith.

Hyperborea is a mythical land that appears several times in Greek mythology. But was it a real place? And if so, where was it ...

The heart of the reviewer can sink upon receiving a doorstop titled something like The Penguin Book of Greek and Latin Lyric Verse, and weighing in at a thousand pages, including the translator’s ...

Photo: Supplied Discovering Greek literature and my identity At Greek school, every Friday evening, we sang the Greek ...

Greek philosopher Bias of Priene rescued enslaved women by paying their ransoms, educating them, and returning them safely ...

Henry Taylor was a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who drew on his upbringing in rural Northern Virginia to write exquisitely crafted verses about wild places.

Exiled, like Odysseus in the Greek epic poem, the McRib is finally coming back. And, as an added holiday bonus, the sauce ...

Poetry has great power to move the hearts of men and women. It cannot be entirely wrong to wish for one great poet to have ...

Kathleen Unger Hart had never made Spanakopita until recently. The savory Greek spinach pie wound up being a topic for a poem ...

If you've ever had olive oil from different countries, you might have noticed that they all taste a bit different from each ...

New Greek Voices is a wonderful collection of short stories from Greece’s best writers since Homer Greek fiction is not ...