A few days ago my friend Julie confessed she had never read Bridge to Terabithia. To quote Blanche Devereaux, "I am stunned! Just stunned! Stunned is the only way to describe how ... stunned I am!" I ...

Over 1,000 years ago, an anonymous Germanic writer gave us the most enduring poem in the English language. This poem was “Beowulf,”an epic spanning over 3,000 lines of alliterating Old English.

I've been reading the Seamus Heaney translation of "Beowulf." As a young graduate student in English I thought I might become a medievalist, so took a course in Old English and read some of "Beowulf" ...

The Angelina Jolie-led Beowulf brought the epic poem to animated life, but how accurate was its portrayal of the deadly ...