The famous biblical book alludes to God only once. Historically, though, most interpreters have argued the poem’s about love ...

One way to think of poems is as the stories of a moment. All art, at its root, is a way of telling stories. Even paintings — ...

The poet says that while censorship in a dictatorship is nothing new, the same in a democracy feels like entering a new totalitarianism ...

On Valentine’s Day, four classical dancers — Navia Natarajan, N. Srikanth, Divya Devaguptapu and Amrita Lahiri write about how they have explored and interpreted Sringara Rasa, the expression of love ...

“For a long time,” writes Kathleen Jamie in her afterword to The Keelie Hawk (Picador £12.99), “I’ve wanted to write a suite ...

Rumi I woke up to the sharp whistle of a goods train in the early hours of the morning. The railway track runs ...

By treating DNA as a language, Brian Hie’s “ChatGPT for genomes” could pick up patterns that humans can’t see, accelerating ...

Story should always take precedence over metaphor, which is why films like “The Thing With Feathers” are almost always doomed ...

Based on his 2017 short collection of poems The Broken Men Chapbook, Word N Sound co-founder and poet Thabiso Mohare aimed to ...

wrote that football should be “evermore,” whereas poetry should be “nevermore.” In short, you don’t have to be Poe to know similes, metaphors, extended metaphors, allusions, and ...