On my last trip to Korea I attended a sijo conference held at a hanok, a traditional Korean house, in Changnyeong, a rural ...

Matthew Arnold’s poems often reflect our search for meaning in life. Arnold’s best buddy at Rugby School and later at Oxford ...

Ashley is a fan of anything by Ann Patchett, recommends watching The Studio for a comedy break, and considers Wonder Boys the rare movie that surpasses the book.

What does it mean to live a hyphenated identity across the border from a home that is under attack? An Indian journalist ...

Declan Lynch’s celebration of John Giles and his view that the RTÉ panel were the best on the planet (‘Thank you, John Giles, for putting brains over banter’, June 29) took me back to 2002, when my ...

Washington poet Eric Ode often finds ideas while out walking. Here he shares a poem inspired by the prickly (or not) holly ...