Some of the oldest poems are about war. Verses about warfare were carved onto Sumerian tablets that are more than four millennia old. Japanese samurai also wrote poetry about battles, as did Walt ...

Spoken-word poets in Cameroon are using their art form to help communities cope with traumas left by the ongoing civil war.

His 2023 book, “The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War,” was a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist for Nonfiction, and his book, “The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the ...

One of the forms that war takes is one that happens intra-state, between people of a single country. Civil wars have ravaged many countries over the years. They have permanently changed the political ...

What We’re Reading Discover notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. So it is with us. The Civil War lingers in memory as brutal and heartbreaking, but also as heroic and tragic, accompanied ...

The auction also has a super range of collections of contemporary fiction (including collected works of Canadian author Alice Munro and American novelist Annie Proulx) and poetry books by Irish ...

A Russian court has sentenced 19-year-old activist Daria Kozyreva to two years and eight months in prison for protesting the war in Ukraine through poetry and graffiti, in a case that has drawn ...

We need them speaking out on civil liberties, on the rights of immigrants and on the rights of universities." While Democrats are increasingly energized to resist Trump, a slew of national polls ...

When Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) took over most of the country’s capital Khartoum in the early days of the war, the youth-led civil society initiative Hadhreen kept its ...

Andrew Stanton is a Newsweek weekend reporter based in Maine. His role is reporting on U.S. politics and social issues. Andrew joined Newsweek in 2021 from The Boston Globe. He is a graduate of ...

On Tuesday, Sudan marked two years of civil war. Though there has been some good news with the Sudanese military retaking Khartoum, there seems to be no end in sight for what the UN has called the ...