Faith, Fiction, Friends

Asked to name the great Modernist poets and writers, I might say T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, and William Butler Yeats. The name of ...

I’ll be honest here. I thought I knew, or was at least aware of, the major poets, British or otherwise, of World War I. I was wrong. I’d nev...

At King Edward’s School in Birmingham,   J.R.R. Tolkien   because close friends with several other boys. He and three others formed what the...

In 1919, the English publisher William Heinemann released a volume of poetry entitled  Spirits in Bondage: A Cycle of Lyrics . The collectio...

In 1914,  Ypres  was a small city in western Belgium, not far from the French border and the North Sea. It had a long history of at lea...

Today is Armistice Day. How do you make sense to children (and possibly adults) about a war that happened a hundred years ago? You migh...

I have a personal definition of what makes a good biography. Solid research and an understanding of the subject are a given, but what s...

Sunday marks the 100 th anniversary of the end of World War I. The war that was supposed to be over by Christmas (of 1914) lasted four-...

In 1916,  Mary Borden  was 30 when she found herself managing a field hospital on the Somme River in France. Casualties were pouring in...

You start to read a mystery, one in a series that you’ve been enjoying. You like the detective, you like the way the author writes, y...

Before it was  a stage play that won five Tony awards, before it was  a movie directed by Steven Spielberg, it was a book, a book for o...

It’s a poem that used to be included in high school English textbooks and anthologies. It was a favorite poem of President John F. Kenn...

Francis Ledwidge (1887-1917) has not been one of the better-known poets of World War I. At first glance, this seems puzzling. He s...