By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

A survey of the Polish poet’s work in the late 1940s and early 1950s highlights Miłosz’s attempt to grapple with the ...

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Ceasefire,” his most famous poem, invoked the “Iliad” in exploring his country’s sectarian strife. But his work wasn’t ...

Taylor Swift left empty-handed as some of the biggest names in music were recognized for their achievements over the past year ...

Our Poetry Book of the Month reviews include two invigorating releases by Diane Seuss and a dark, posthumous collection by Tove Ditlevsen Alongside Terrance Hayes, Diane Seuss has a strong case to ...

Despite the zeitgeist surrounding GenAI—or perhaps because of it—businesses are now entering a more pragmatic stage in which both the benefits of GenAI and the challenges with scaling are ...

The Thousand and One Nights is an ‘infinite text’: it has no fixed shape or length, no known author and is transformed with each new translation. In this first episode of Fiction and the Fantastic, ...

The winner of the 2017 PEN Pinter Prize on how poets have responded to the horrors of civil war – and why the peace process is far from over. By Michael Longley Editor’s note: this piece was ...

Or was it 1974? By Laurie Gwen Shapiro One morning in the mid-1970s, a solemn announcement came over the intercom at Friends Seminary: “Noted person John Lennon is now in the meetinghouse.

Clare Crockett — who lost her life in a 2016 earthquake at the age of 33 — dropped her dreams of being an actress to become a nun in her late teens, giving up the chance to present a show on ...