Any anthology is a product of its editor’s decisions. In “ 100 Great Catholic Poems ” (Word on Fire, $34.95), editor Sally ...

Mexican Ballads, Chicano Poems combines literary theory with the personal engagement of a prominent Chicano scholar. Recalling his experiences as a student in Texas, José Limón examines the ...

Bob Dylan hit a songwriting peak in the mid-1960s that might just be unrivaled in the history of popular music. Writing and ...

Next week, Father John Misty will release his sixth album, Mahashmashana. It’s one of his best, displaying all the qualities associated with the man: wit, insight, grandiosity, melody, beauty, a ...

The band’s first phase features a charming, very English sense of melancholy and melodrama – matched with wilful prog ...

The Juliet Letters remains one of the more divisive albums in Elvis Costello’s wide-ranging discography. When it was released ...

Humanity’s unshakable attraction to warfare and its ramifications are unmistakable themes that run throughout this powerful ...

Director’s film Blitz, starring the Irish actor, focuses on a tight family of three trying to keep heads aloft as the bombs fall in London in 1940 ...

Whereas interstates and nature dominate the first two sections of "If Lost," the third and final portion, “Don't Be Afraid,” ...

Their arms and legs would be outstretched, meaning that many surviving examples have lost their limbs ... but to a popular folk ballad from the US titled Young Charlotte. Based on the poem A Corpse ...

Oxford believed that his wife had been unfaithful to him while he was away on a European tour and (for a time, at least) seems to have doubted that he was the father of her first child. Hamlet says to ...

Hearing Ballad of Easy Rider from a fifty-five-year perspective no doubt evokes the same reaction as it did at its original release: 'This doesn't sound ...