By the 15th century, Arabic and later European historians interpreted Ibn al-Wardi’s story as a fact-based parable, with ...

A new study reveals that modern ideas about the Black Death’s rapid spread across Asia stem from a centuries-old ...

Pink Dust, a collection about aging and death, offers an optimistic vision of life as a continual act of reading.

Carson Daly remembered his late mother on the anniversary of her death with a poignant poem he said "really saved" him when he was "in the grip of crippling grief" after losing her. "My mom died 7 yrs ...

To mark 40 years since the death of Philip Larkin in December 1985, Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive and ...

Your love and pity doth th’ impression fill Which vulgar scandal stamped upon my brow; For what care I who calls me well or ill, So you o’ergreen my bad, my good allow? You are my all the world, and I ...