With its use of alliterative verse and rousing subject matter, the epic poem Beowulf has been adored and analyzed for over a millennium. The poem was originally composed in Old English, and it has been translated into dozens of languages over the centuries. Generally, translators have attempted to reproduce one or more of its features or qualities at the expense of others. This particular...

From Portland, Oregon community radio station KBOO comes Between the Covers - a bimonthly podcast dedicated to books. Hosted by David Naimon, each episode features a detailed consideration (approximately 90 minutes in length) of a single piece of literature. Many episodes also feature a long-form interview with the book's author. As of this write-up, the most recent episode is an interview with...

The world of hard-boiled crime fiction has been around for many decades, and a number of magazines sprung up in the 1920s to fulfill the growing demand for such hoary stories and tales. One such magazine was Black Mask, which was launched in April 1920 by H. L. Mencken and George Jean Nathan. The magazine quickly garnered attention, and it was also the first magazine to publish the work of Dashiel...

BOMB Magazine was founded in 1981 to publish conversations between artists and writers. Today, in addition to their quarterly print magazine, art and literature fans can access essays, interviews, literature, reviews, and more on the magazine's website. In BOMB Daily, readers will find new material every weekday. Recent daily features have included a conversation between novelist Jessie Chaffee...

Designed for middle school readers, the award-winning podcast Book Club for Kids is loved by students and librarians alike. Launched as a radio talk show segment in 2000 and revamped into a podcast in 2015, the show has a longstanding tradition of bringing listeners the best of the book world. Kitty Felde, a journalist and author, hosts the podcast. She is joined by students and fellow writers,...

Shortlisted as a top book podcast by Book Riot, She Reads, and Oprah Magazine, among others, Books and Boba is resonating with bibliophiles. Launched in 2016, the podcast acts as a virtual book club, "spotlighting books written by authors of Asian descent." Podcast producer Marvin Yueh and writer Reera Yoo co-host the show, which covers a little bit of everything: news, reviews, and interviews....

With this website visitors can read selected poetry from the current issue of the Beloit Poetry Journal, which has been published since 1950, but only on the Web much more recently. In addition, in 2006 the full-text archive of all 227 issues of the Journal published since the fall of 1950 was made available online. The editors of the Journal point out "rare texts such as Anne Sexton's first...

In the United States, Bertolt Brecht is perhaps best known as the composer of the Threepenny Opera with Kurt Weill, which gave birth to the popular song known in English as "Mack the Knife". He is generally regarded as a tremendously prolific playwright, poet, and theatre director, and his works have been translated into a host of different productions and settings during the 20th and 21st...

The Buenos Aires Review (BAR) is a bilingual, digital publication that seeks to highlight "the best and latest work by emerging and established writers from the Americas, in both Spanish and English." Edited by an international team of writers and scholars, BAR features poetry, short fiction, interviews, essays, and reviews. In addition, BAR publishes translations of essays and literary works...

Written by Mikhail, "The Master and Margarita" is a Russian novel that blends magical realism with social satire in a spot-on effort that effectively skewers the bizarre bureaucracy and social order of the Soviet Union. The book features characters that include a talking black cat, a young poet, and a cast of others that poke in and out of the narrative. Upon reading this novel, some might wish...