His CIA code name is Condor. In the next seventy-two hours almost everyone he trusts will try to kill him.

You don't need to speak Old English to understand why the epic poem "Beowulf" has endured for centuries. Here's a primer with everything you need to know before seeing Robert Zemeckis' film adaptation ...

Seamus Heaney's award-winning translation of Beowulf (1999) seems to have sparked a renewed interest in the Anglo-Saxon poem. This month a film, Beowulf & Grendel, and an operatic version, Grendel, ...

The eighth-century epic poem "Beowulf" is -- as every high school senior should know -- the oldest extant work of any significance in our (or any other modern European) language, and the point from ...