At the time of his death in December 1985, at the age of ninety, on the island of Majorca, Robert Graves had long been a legendary figure in the literary world. This was due in part to his immense ...

The curious case of Robert Graves — the 66-year-old accused of nonchalantly executing a noisy reveler who lived in his building — has careened from tragic to baffling to bizarre. Graves' ...

Beryl Graves, second wife of the celebrated English poet and novelist Robert Graves and a stolid supporter of his creative quirks, has died. She was 88. She died Monday on the Spanish island of ...

HERCULES, MY SHIPMATE—Robert Graves—Creative Age Press ($3). What the Golden Fleece really was—a cloak tossed to earth by Zeus when he was drunk, or a sheepskin book of alchemic secrets, or the gilded ...

The conceit of this column is simple: I write about books I’m reading. New, old, obscure, overrated — whatever’s on the nightstand is fair game. So while most weeks are devoted to new releases or ...