Hurricane is the main character in Sue Owen's new poetry book. Here's what reviewer Barbara Sims thinks about it.

Jamil Khan, Senior Reporter The global stage of literature was already set at the ongoing 43rd Sharjah International Book ...

EIGHTY-TWO years after Albert Camus’ L’Etranger (The Stranger) saw the light of day and entered into the pantheon of greatest ...

The Nobel Prize-winning novelist celebrates Zbigniew Herbert, whose defiant work proved that even the darkest times call for ...

Last month, Shahaddah Jack was appointed the city’s inaugural youth poet laureate. Over a two-year term, the 20-year-old ...

She says that there is a time in everyone's life, probably in teens when most people are first drawn to poetry—they adore the sound of it and the music it holds—the rhyme that it offers. It is only ...

Bereavement is the main theme of Khansa’s poetry, especially the grief that arose from the death of her brother Sakhr. It is ...

On 2nd of ILF displays a powerful lineup of book launchings, panel discussions, poetry sessions, and film screenings under ...

If you are not immediately sure who Milton is, or even what Pound means, then you are not alone: even Jenny Marx, wife of ...

I got to know Jowshan Ara better when I visited her home to interview her husband, Mahbub ul Alam Chowdhury, the poet who ...

Mark Gustafson, Minneapolis-based biographer of poet, translator and men’s movement founder Robert Bly, launches “Sowing Seeds: The Minnesota Literary Renaissance & Robert Bly, 1958-1980” this week.

As Hoskote writes, “... the twin poles of (Mir’s) consciousness were watan... and ghurbat, the condition of exile... and Mir ...