Dasho’s fine brown face, his dark eyes and long black hair, are haloed by the white glow of the sphere behind him. ‘Do you ...

Virginia Woolf once wrote that Electra, another famous Sophocles ingenue, ‘stands before us like a figure so tightly bound ...

For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets and translators to dissect the poems they’ve contributed to our pages.

Clásicos are like Christmas for football. In these high-tension matches between fierce rivals, expectation almost always outstrips results. For months, fans visualize goals with the unrealistic ...

“I had come to Poland to seek out the story of Count Rzewuski and other Polish adventurers who had traveled from the Ukrainian farmlands and Russian steppes south to the Levant and the Arabian ...

So uninterested was I in coming out of the closet at the dawn of the twenty-first century that the thought of spending freshman year on death row seemed more appealing. This was September 2000, during ...

Written toward the end of Jansson’s life, “Once, at a park,” starts out as a classic piece on writer’s block—but there is much more going on. Written toward the end of Jansson’s life, “Once, at a park ...