While most weeks are devoted to new releases or Booker longlisters, others, like this one, begin with a forgotten 82-year-old novel handed to me by a coworker who wondered what I would make of it.

But Graves thought of himself primarily as a poet, and had concocted a theory of poetry based on what he called the White Goddess: “My thesis is that the language of poetic myth anciently ...

Congressman Sam Graves is calling on Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to review a “concerning number” of cancer cases at an elementary school in Liberty.

Ruth Fainlight’s most recent collection of poems, Somewhere Else Entirely, is published by Bloodaxe Books. The film of the same name will be released later this year.

When cameras came to Fox Hollow Farm, the Westfield property where police unearthed a monster, the farm's current owner, Robert Graves, shared the exact spot where investigators believe dozens of men ...

This article appears in the March 2025 print edition with the headline “When Robert Frost Was Bad.” When you buy a book using a link on this page, we receive a commission.

Fonograf, $18.95 trade paper (184p) ISBN 979-8-987-58905-2 This exquisite dual-language edition of Gil de Biedma’s selected poems reveals the voice of a preeminent poet of mid-20th-century Spain.

Weaving themes of loss, memory, and transformation, Holland-Batt (Fishing for Lightning) stuns in this powerful volume that draws from her previous collections. In “Pocket Mirror,” the ...