The practice of reading is not what it once was. In this age of information, adults in the United States read fewer books with each passing year, and for many, reading has become synonymous with the ...

Instead, the most powerful moments come when the whole cast sing together, hymning Steinbeck’s plural approach to human misery and endurance. National Theatre, until 14 September From news to ...

But the big thing is that it looks a bit weird in 2024 to be hymning steam trains and booing the electric baddie, so in comes a new character – Hydra, the hydrogen train – to be our hero’s ...

Burns wrote this poem during the winter of 1785-6, which was included in the Kilmarnock edition of Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (1786). It employs the Spenserian Stanza, which was ...

What is it with folkies and birds? Songs hymning birds and flight are legion in pop, but most merely use our winged friends as a symbol of longing and liberty. Folk singers, meanwhile, like to get ...

Kipling is not laureate. In his heyday he was most useful, hymning England’s dominion over palm and pine, glossing British exploitation by soul-stirring references to the White Man’s Burden ...

Some reporters have even complained that there was far too much, particularly after a weekend at the LBJ Ranch, when Moyers deluged them with 40-odd handouts hymning Administration triumphs ...

Hymning a punk leper-messiah, sitting “in a limousine/ flinging out the fish and the unleavened”, drinking, thieving, fucking and fighting while preaching virtue, it’s a voracious rock ...

Thou didst cast the cloak of love over the failings of the feeble. A lover of chant, thou didst rejoice in the creation, whilst hymning the Creator, and didst command thy followers to be at peace and ...