The American modernist Marianne Moore once wrote that poems are imaginary gardens with real toads in them. This applies nicely to Dante’s “Divine Comedy.” Its garden is the poem’s otherworld—based on ...

There have been some excellent movies made about the afterlife: Albert Brooks’s Defending Your Life, Michael Powell’s A Matter of Life and Death, Hirokazu Kore-eda’s After Life, and Ernst Lubitsch’s ...

Scott Janssen’s heart was racing. He took shallow breaths. He couldn’t believe what he was seeing, but he tried to hide his shock. It was a crisp autumn day, and Janssen was visiting Buddy, an elderly ...

Diane Watt has received funding from the AHRC, British Academy and Leverhulme Trust. Liz Herbert McAvoy received funding for an associated project from the Leverhulme Trust. Amy Louise Morgan does not ...