Sassoon and Owen capture in verse the sheer frightfulness of trench warfare; they are the supreme English war poets of their ...

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And then there is poetry. Most modern poetry written ... then try "Goodbye to All That" (1929), a World War I book by Robert Graves. (OK, it’s a memoir, not a novel.) Or — even more succinct ...

Czesław Miłosz lost his homeland to a Stalinist regime. What have we Americans valued in our own cultural past that might now ...

I write this as Israel’s genocidal practices seem unstoppable, with no ceasefire in Gaza or Jenin. I am trying to fathom the ...

A lustrous scion of fin-de-siècle Vienna, she was born Alma Maria Schindler, the daughter of the operetta singer Anna Bergen ...

Jean Moorcroft Wilson’s biography of Robert Graves covers the ... Over the course of the war, Graves himself evolved a subtler theory of the virtues of military service, expressed in his late poem ...

I saw mass graves surrounded by so much darkness ... “Miracles transcend physical nature and physical laws,” says Robert Spitzer, a Jesuit priest who heads the Magis Center in California ...

former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, the architect of the Vietnam War. What he doesn't say about his part in history is almost as telling as what he does. Emile de Antonio tears into ...

She makes no pretense of being learned in Islamic studies, leaving the argumentative heavy lifting to her Stop Islamization of America partner Robert Spencer ... and digging their own graves.” — ...

1935—Black Enterprise magazine founder and publisher Earl Graves is born on this day in Brooklyn ... One of his most controversial works was “The Black Christ & Other Poems.” He was born in 1903. But ...