And lastly: Beethoven continued to compose music even after becoming completely deaf at age 40 (16 years before his death).

These are words that both sing and challenge. If, like this reviewer, you were not previously acquainted with June Jordan, ...

His poetry reckoned with the immensities of reality, time, and grief, confronting a world upended by new truths about the ...

Once the whaling capital of the world, New Bedford remembers Herman Melville’s literary masterpiece with an annual reading ...

Books have always sparked imagination. Sometimes that spark travels beyond the page and lands straight into a recording studio. It's hard to say why certain novels resonate so deeply with musicians.

Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old Minneapolis poet, wife and mother, was shot and killed Wednesday by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer, setting off nationwide protests over the ...

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The woman shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Minneapolis on Wednesday was a 37-year-old mother and poet who had recently moved to Minnesota. Renee Nicole Macklin Good, ...

30 Poems in November! is a literary fundraiser in support of literacy programs at Center for New Americans in Northampton. Writers commit to write one poem a day for the 30 days of November. Some ...

Our critic A.O. Scott feels the heat of a wintry lyric by the Nobel laureate Louise Glück. Isabella Cotier By A.O. Scott A.O. Scott, a critic at large for the Book Review, recorded the poem that ...

Forcing an “AI” to do your will isn’t a tall order to fill—just feed it a line that carefully rhymes and you’ll get it to casually kill. (Ahem, sorry, not sure what came over me there.) According to a ...

Daryln Brewer Hoffstot is the author of a collection of essays, “A Farm Life: Observations From Fields and Forests.” My husband loves all the trimmings of Thanksgiving, particularly mashed potatoes. I ...