Padma Shri poet Shafi Shauq warns institutions—not people—threaten Kashmiri. He explains power, translation, and survival.

A 400-page anthology of the poetry of Mir Taqi Mir, presented in Urdu, Hindi and English alongside an insightful commentary, makes the 18th century poet’s work more accessible to the contemporary Angl ...

Scottish poet and social media influencer Len Pennie grew up speaking both Scots and English. Now with more than a million followers, she’s leading the charge to popularize the Scots language at home ...

Ahead of her performance this evening at the Royal Opera House, Mumbai, where she presents ‘Ibaadat – Songs of the Sacred: An Evening of Soulful Sufi Music’, Kalra reflects on the journey of The Sufi ...

The cross-Border pan-island Samuel Beckett Biennale will travel to the places of Beckett’s life, as organisers Seán Doran and Liam Browne of Arts Over Borders commission experimental productions to ...

The novelist highlights novels and story collections that show off the humor, lyricism, and durability of Irish.

Only a handful of babies in Ireland have ever been named Cushla, the rare Irish girl name meaning ‘pulse of my heart’ – could ...

In a room full of strangers, sometimes it can be intimidating to speak up, much less read aloud poetry written less than 10 minutes prior. At the Spoken Word event, hosted by the Woodrick Center for ...

For a long time, imagination was considered a human endeavor. When we’re children, we invent invisible friends and turn sticks into swords. As adults spend millions of dollars making movies that are ...

Listening to an audiobook while reading along offers a new way to experience literature.

It is only due to great merit accumulated from past lives that a poet occasionally finds such a knowledgeable critic who truly understands the labor involved in poetic composition—who carefully ...

Hajong does not behave neatly. It lives in a strange middle space: historically shaped by Tibeto-Burman roots but now an Eastern Indo-Aryan language, carrying traces of both worlds in its bones. The ...