Maria Reva’s Endling is at once a postmodern caper and an autobiographical work that explores how ordinary people navigate a ...

Facing an unraveling marriage, a middle-aged lawyer sets off on a road trip in the hopes of rediscovering his life’s meaning.

America's literary highways may be plenty crowded with middle-aged runaways fleeing lives that increasingly feel like a bad fit. But Ben Markovits adds a moving tale to the collection.

On Nov. 25, 1936, a young Oxford professor delivered a lecture to the British Academy in London about the Old English epic “Beowulf.” Ronald, as the professor’s friends called him, argued that ...

From “experimental archaeology” to the mysterious appeal of exploration, the wide-ranging subjects detailed in these titles captivated Smithsonian magazine’s science contributors this year Joe Spring, ...

Every culture and society on Earth, both past and present, has their own ideas of what makes a person honorable or worthy. This is particularly true when it comes to warriors and their actions both on ...

Perhaps the oldest surviving long poem in Old English, Beowulf is commonly seen as one of the most important works of Old English Literature. While the date of the poem’s composition is still debated, ...

We’d be missing a lot if we confined our reading to works written originally in English. And when we read a book written in another language, we often forget that we’re reading a translation.

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Brighton author George W Jones argues that Beowulf isn’t a myth and that it didn’t mythically happen in Sweden. Holiday chaos as British travel company goes bust after half a century Families ...

What should I read next? If only making that decision were simple: Recommendations abound online and off, but when you’re casting about for a new book, especially if you’re coming off the heels of ...