The British writer Philip Hoare, who as @philipwhale chronicles his predawn swims in Southampton Water year-round on Twitter—and makes his followers in the States shiver and feel like laggards, even ...

Wrapping up one of his recent panoramically authoritative surveys of our altered landscape, inner and outer, my Atlantic colleague Ed Yong put it like this: “In the classic hero’s journey—the ...

Shaw herself ushers the little audience into the graffiti-bedecked tunnels under Waterloo station as ebulliently as a bride’s mother at a wedding, even though she’s merely dressed in black trews and ...

“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” Word for Word’s jewel-like staging of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s epic poem, is a slight detour from the acclaimed company’s usual contemporary literary short stories ...

illustrated book containing twelve etching and aquatints (six in colours), on Crisbrook handmade paper, with text by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, bound in leather boards (as issued), contained in the ...

In his classic narrative poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” Samuel Taylor Coleridge tells us in no uncertain terms that bad things happen when we mess with an albatross. From high school English ...