There was only one member of the Yeats family to win an Olympic medal for art—and it was not William Butler. In Sandymount, Ireland, 150 years ago this year, one of the greatest poets of the 20th ...

Mistakes are instructive. In particular, they can become a form of analysis, as, for example, in sports or music, when getting something a little bit wrong leads to improvement in technique or ...

Paintings by Mainie Jellett, Mary Swanzy and Paul Henry among works in collections of Gemma and Derry Hussey and John A ...

President Biden’s address to U.S. troops stationed in England on his way to the recent G-7 Summit referenced lines from a poem by the Irish poet William Butler Yeats to emphasize the need for ...

What happens when writers embrace artificial intelligence as their muse? By A.O. Scott Those who complete this year’s race in October will receive a medal that reads, “There are no strangers here; ...

Asked to describe an apple, most of us would come up with “red” and “round.” Ask a poet like William Butler Yeats the same question and he’d respond with something completely different. For poets, the ...

“No one who likes Yeats is capable of human intimacy,” declares a character in Sally Rooney’s Conversations with Friends, quoted somewhat tongue-in-cheek by Joseph Hassett in this subtle and often ...

This modern Irish bistro masterfully blends the soul of Ireland with French technique, accented by subtle Chinese flavors, creating a dining experience that is as refined as it is welcoming. William ...

While the hockey mom has carved out a place in the culture as a tireless, minivan-driving enabler of youthful aspirations, the birding mom remains – to borrow from field parlance – an "accidental." As ...

William Butler Yeats, at the age of seventy-three, stands well within the company of the great poets. He is still writing, and the poems which now appear, usually embedded in short plays or set into ...