As the cold sting of winter finally starts to fade, so the literary festival season edges closer. An addition to the line-up this year is a five-day celebration of the legendary saga of Beowulf. How ...

What have they done to Beowulf, everyone’s least favorite Old English epic about a hero’s battles with a monster, the monster’s mother and an annoying dragon who turns up 50 years later? Director ...

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 ...

Back now with DAY TO DAY, and the big flurry of new movies this weekend. Here is Mark Jordan Legan with our weekly look at what the critics think. Slate's summary judgment. Mr. MARK JORDAN LEGAN ...

The plot kicked up a gear in this week’s Beowulf: Return To The Shieldlands, though it pulled back from being truly surprising by leaving Abrecan still alive at the end of it. When it looked for a ...

"Just don't take any course where they make you read 'Beowulf,' " Woody Allen's character declared in "Annie Hall," and popular attitude toward the eighth-century Anglo-Saxon epic poem hasn't changed ...

An episode featuring a raid on Herot should have provided a dramatic high point as we move past the midway point of this series, but unfortunately this episode highlighted some of the continuing ...