Yet, literary biographies continue to be published, and I have to wonder: Who cares? How many people entering a bookstore would recognize the name W.H. Auden? Salinger might be different, as he is ...

By Andrew Motion Edward Mendelson, WH Auden’s literary executor and editor, has called Nicholas Jenkins’s The Island “a Copernican revolution” in studies of the great poet. It’s a big claim, and for ...

Max Boot chronicles the rise of Ronald Reagan, one of the most consequential presidents of post-World War II America, in a new biography, “Reagan: His Life and Legend.” Boot joins The Post’s ...

We know of the poets who wrote between the two wars, l’entre deux guerres, and of WH Auden’s “Shield of Achilles” where Tethys, grief-stricken at the horrors of a million boots marching off to wage a ...

For Nicholas Jenkins, WH Auden’s piercingly brilliant early poems emerge in the devastated wake of the first World War. Although it is absent as a named subject, war is presented as the crucial ...