Poetry makes nothing happen. A popular W.H. Auden line to quote and debate the idea that poetry lacks utility.

Grief, loss, and hope in the face of violence and tragedy, echoing through poetry and memory.

These things, they seem superfluous: art, culture, sport, literature, poetry—but you all know, especially here at a liberal arts school, they’re not superfluous,” he said. “These are the things that ...

Most assignments in college are not relevant,” he told me. “They’re hackable by AI, and I just had no interest in doing them.

WH Auden wrote in the poem he entitled In Memory of WB Yeats that “the words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living”. Pope Francis tried to guard against such modification by ...

Broke is a thoughtful, suspenseful, and deeply moving film. Anchored by a turn from Wyatt Russell, who gives the best performance of his career.

There are dozens of books on the Bhopal Gas Tragedy. Most of them have cited, directly or indirectly, the history of the city ...

Kelsey’s youngest child, son Auden, was born on November 14, 2016. He goes by his middle name as well, James. “The name was chosen to honor the great poet W.H. Auden, and James is after ...

Gabriel and Jeffrey Kahane can be found on stages more often than not, but they rarely share one. Most days, the father and son are lucky if they’re in the same time zone: Gabriel, 43, is a ...

This “low dishonest decade”, as the English poet W. H. Auden neatly put it, saw the consolidation of totalitarianism in Germany, Italy, the Soviet Union and elsewhere. Divisive trade wars had ...

Richard Wagner may, in the words of WH Auden, have been an “absolute shit”, but he was ... not to mention painting, books and poetry? “Well, he made a monumental contribution to western art, but I ...