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The Outsize Influence of Wales on Fantasy, Music, and Movies

The Outsize Influence of Wales on Fantasy, Music, and Movies

Anna Fiteni Explores What Welsh Culture Has to Do With Fleetwood Mac, Lord of the Rings, Hayao Miyazaki, and More

By Anna Fiteni | October 22, 2025

Sally Rooney on the Short Stories of Thomas Morris

Sally Rooney on the Short Stories of Thomas Morris

Read “Wales” From Morris’s New Collection, “Open Up”

By Sally Rooney | April 8, 2025

“A Chubby-Cheeked, Shabby-Blazered Colossus.” How Dylan Thomas Influenced Generations of Poets

“A Chubby-Cheeked, Shabby-Blazered Colossus.” How Dylan Thomas Influenced Generations of Poets

Dai George Remembers the Inventive Wordplay and Freewheeling Life of a Welsh Literary Giant

By Dai George | November 7, 2024

The Booker Revisited: Notions of the “Fatherland” in Peter Ho Davies’ <em>The Welsh Girl</em>

The Booker Revisited: Notions of the “Fatherland” in Peter Ho Davies’ The Welsh Girl

Lucy Scholes' Rereads More Titles Considered for the Booker Prize

By Lucy Scholes | June 30, 2023

Who will buy this little Welsh bookshop, which comes complete with hundreds of books?

Who will buy this little Welsh bookshop, which comes complete with hundreds of books?

By Emily Temple | March 1, 2023

Jan Morris Talks Travel, Dictionaries, and Other People’s Diaries

Jan Morris Talks Travel, Dictionaries, and Other People’s Diaries

Paul Clements in Conversation with the Late, Great Travel Writer

By Paul Clements | December 13, 2022

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Dozens of libraries in England and Wales may become "warm banks" for people who need shelter.

By Corinne Segal | September 28, 2022

Searching For a Lost Medieval City Somewhere in Wales

By Matthew Green | July 18, 2022

Michael Sheen to perform work by emerging Welsh writers on St. David’s Day.

By Jonny Diamond | February 23, 2022

Today in weird literary tourism: there’s a Welsh spa named for Dylan Thomas’s Milk Wood

Today in weird literary tourism: there’s a Welsh spa named for Dylan Thomas’s Milk Wood

By Jonny Diamond | October 20, 2020

Meet the PhD Student Inventing a New Scientific Language in Welsh

Meet the PhD Student Inventing a New Scientific Language in Welsh

On Bedwyr Ab Ion Thomas's Mission to Reach One
Million Welsh Speakers

By Ally Findley | September 29, 2020

On the Gleefully Indecent Poems of a Medieval Welsh Feminist Poet

On the Gleefully Indecent Poems of a Medieval Welsh Feminist Poet

Gwerful Mechain, Author of Classics Like "Poem to the Vagina" and "Poem to the Penis"

By Lauren Cocking | August 9, 2019

See the poetry of England and Wales in an interactive map.

See the poetry of England and Wales in an interactive map.

By Corinne Segal | July 18, 2019

Six Novels to Widen Your View of Wales

Six Novels to Widen Your View of Wales

Beyond the Religious Zeal, Noble Drunks, and "Ugly, Lovely" Towns

By Cynan Jones | June 27, 2018

The Unexpected Poetry of Sleeping Outside

The Unexpected Poetry of Sleeping Outside

"I’d Rather Be Huddled Somewhere and a Little Underprepared"

By Ben Shattuck | May 14, 2018

Peter Ho Davies on Moving to America and Mixing History with Invention

Peter Ho Davies on Moving to America and Mixing History with Invention

An Interview with the Author of The Fortunes

By Lauren Bufferd | September 1, 2016