Paul Weller, Bruce Foxton and the late Rick Buckler taught the youth of Britain how to dress, think and rock. Why did they ...

The rhythmic pounding of grain, the chants of the fields, and the haunting strains of dirges—once the essential pulse of ...

Seamus Heaney’s love-poem to marriage, The Skunk, combines exile and erotica, moving from an American wilderness image ...

Vice-President Kashim Shettima says African countries cannot continue to rely on “foreign blueprints” for development.

For centuries, Africa was plundered for its resources. For these centuries, we were mostly prophets of lamentation and ...

There are people who live off of being scary to others. And finally, the other large branch of corridos are elegies: “Oh, he used to be such a nice guy, we had fun playing by the river when we ...

This was the first of several poems he would address to his painter friends over the coming years, most famously the elegies ‘The Thermal Stair’ ...

Black Elegies by Kimberly Juanita Brown is an unflinching study of black grief as a form of elegy. Brown asks: How do you mourn those you are not supposed to see? And where does the grief go?

This was the first of several poems he would address to his painter friends over the coming years, most famously the elegies ‘The Thermal Stair’ ...