If fame is the name of your desire, writing about literature is among the least likely ways to find it. From the 17th century until today, only four literary critics, John Dryden (1631-1700), Samuel ...

This article is a Cover Story selection, a weekly feature highlighting the top picks from the editors of America Media. How seriously should you take a doormat that reads: “Welcome. Just kidding.

"Forgive my appealing to you. But I believe you are a person who takes such matters seriously, and I do want to put him in touch with the right people!" So wrote T.S. Eliot in 1941 to his friend ...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk might want to add “valor stealer” to his long list of accolades. For at least a year, the world’s richest man has been repeatedly paraphrasing the great — albeit doomer-esque — ...

“Long ago I studied the ancient Indian languages, and while I was chiefly interested at that time in Philosophy, I read a little poetry too: and I know that my own poetry shows the influence of Indian ...

T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land," to quote the description in Robert Crawford's mesmerizing new book, was - and is - a poem of "ruin, brokenness, pain and wastage," but these same words could easily ...

You stand on the edge of a strip of asphalt, in the middle of a breezy, weedy, Southern forest. It's nearly sunset and the day's final rays sprawl over hay rolls and a small pond across the road.

It’s hard to imagine T.S. Eliot riding the subway. In his three-piece tweed suit, topped by a bowler hat, and with a furled black umbrella firmly in hand, he would present a startling apparition to ...

T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land,” to quote the description in Robert Crawford’s mesmerizing new book, was — and is — a poem of “ruin, brokenness, pain and wastage,” but these same words could easily ...