Okay, sit still. I have a lot of things to say about Maria Dahvana Headley's new book, Beowulf, and I'm gonna try to say them all right now. It is Beowulf, mostly. Beowulf, kinda. It is Beowulf down ...

Good morning. Irina Dumitrescu reviews Maria Headley new translation of Beowulf. Headley has turned Beowulf into a bro, and it is mostly terrible: “Translations of Beowulf are often judged by their ...

I enjoyed Stephen T. Asma’s essay on Beowulf, but I had a few reservations (“Never Mind Grendel. Can Beowulf Conquer the 21st-Century Guilt Trip?,” The Chronicle Review, December 7). One problem is ...

It began as a pagan poem told around shadowy campfires about a hero fighting the monster Grendel, the monster’s mother and a dragon. Christendom’s world of saints and sinners reinvented Beowulf as a ...

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 ...

It took 54 years, but the Sewickley Public Library in Pennsylvania has its copy of Beowulf back. It was checked out in January 1969. And since the library is fine-free now, there was no charge. Good ...

<> at Archiginnasio on April 3, 2012 in Bologna, Italy. I started reading Seamus Heaney’s Beowulf on the way to my first cross-country meet in 8th grade. I didn’t know anything about the story—I ...

Many ancient texts are the work of multiple authors that have been mashed up into one story over the course of generations. Works like The Iliad and The Odyssey ascribed to the blind poet Homer are ...

Actors’ Theatre of Columbus marks a promising expansion beyond its outdoor summer plays with a laid-back and casually amusing take on an epic tale. “Beowulf (and the Bard),” which launched the company ...