Alfaguara publishes the 'Complete Poetry' of the Argentine writer, a corpus that he kept almost hidden during his lifetime, now adding the unpublished book 'Fable of Death', written in 1941, and 23 ...

Cristina Rivera Garza’s newly translated novel evokes a mixture of numbness and anxiety in the face of incessant violence.

Author Lisa C. Taylor discusses how the awareness of our mortality can animate our writing and improve our lives.

Author, poet, and philosopher David Whyte reflects on the power of words and explores why accepting and celebrating the human ...

Judy Collins' husband Louis Nelson, who designed the Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., died in December at ...

Forget those funny roses-are-red poems and start with one of the English language’s literary giants. Published posthumously in 1890, “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” is arguably one of ...

4 Extra Debut. Jonathan Bate turns to John Betjeman and his poem on the Death of King George V. From 2007. Show more **** This programme was suggested by Shenyou Me as part of BBC Radio 4 Extra ...