Native Son: The fault in our symbols and how cinema fails at impressionism
It’s cool that Bigger likes both punky screamo and Beethoven, but a character’s bipolar taste in music doesn't make him complex. Neither does…
Prize-winning writer Meghan Daum's next essay collection, "The Problem with Everything" is coming this fall.
Anne Bradstreet was the North American continent's first published poet, yet her legacy has largely been lost to time.
Dozens of community and nonprofit theaters have been forced to abandon productions of "To Kill a Mockingbird" under legal threat.
After decades spent in the shadow of a death sentence pronounced by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Salman Rushdie is quietly defiant.
Who says poetry is dead? It is pretty much alive and thriving, in the United Kingdom at least, whose poetry sales hit a record £12 million.
NEW YORK (AP) — Mary Oliver, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet whose rapturous odes to nature and animal life brought her...
One high school in Chicago welcomed its students back to school with murals that not only dazzled, but also aimed to encourage them to read.
Britain's decision to leave the EU has seen fiction writers respond with an increasing array of Brexit-infused work.
Alice Walker is defending her praise of a British author widely condemned as an anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist.
In a grungy cellar bar, a young crowd sings along to a melancholy ballad in Ukrainian. Nothing unusual here — except...
