poetry

In her debut work, 'The Metamorphoses of Medusa', Belgian-Lebanese poet Racha Mounaged reworks Greek myth through marine science, translation, and political reflection

A play created by AI, as if written by Molière, was recently presented in Paris, bringing with it dire consequences

The Norwegian novelist, playwright, and poet talks to Al Majalla about silence, literature, and everything in between

This Japanese art form reveals 'a bitter awareness of the frailty of human existence and the impermanence of nature,' one of its most perceptive proponents tells Al Majalla.

With her collection 'Con' having won Spain's 2025 National Poetry Prize, the Galician writer spoke to Al Majalla about the process of creation as she works on her first novel.

To commemorate 50 years since the celebrated Italian poet was murdered, France has, for the first time, published a translation of his final prose collection

The Poe Museum in Richmond, Virginia, preserves the memory of Edgar Allan Poe—a writer whose life was as haunted and complex as his fiction

Al Majalla interviews the Lebanese writer about his new award-winning novel on his life in Paris and how living in the French capital shaped his intellectual formation

Weighed down by tragedy and mental health issues, she is known for being one of the most unique Scandinavian voices of the 20th century. Al Majalla looks back at her life 30 years after her passing.

Recent books from Yemen, Egypt, and Syria take a new look at the 10th-century philosopher's famed letter 'The Epistle of Forgiveness', which is said to have inspired Dante's 'Divine Comedy'