A.O. Scott ponders the specific gravity and unlikely grace of Kay Ryan’s “Turtle.” And we have a game to help you memorize it ...

Hip-hop savant Aesop Rock claims to have “never wrote or read poetry that much” while growing up. You’d never know it from “The Living Human Curiousity Sideshow,” an 87-page booklet ...

In school, Russians were forced to learn plenty of poems by heart, ... in whose repertoire are more than 200 fables of both original and translations of well-known plots of Aesop and Lafontaine.

The fables attributed to Aesop come from many sources. Some are as old as the eighth century B.C. (the earliest is from the ...

Hip-hop savant Aesop Rock claims to have “never wrote or read poetry that much” while growing up. You’d never know it from “The Living Human Curiousity Sideshow,” an 87-page booklet ...