Scarlet waxing the moon of a tick. Blackberry sheen of a buzzard’s coat. Heat pearled our skin as we followed up the mountain ...

This week’s poem, Meg Stout’s “Marry a Man Who,” offers a beautiful love-poem portrait of a human who speaks with and listens to the more-than-human world. I love how this poem moves as sweetly and ...

“Black history is American history, and we should celebrate the accomplishments of Black people year-round—February should be ...

Novels by Tana French, Yann Martel and Cat Sebastian; memoirs by Christina Applegate and Liza Minnelli; a Judy Blume ...

Dreaming and Awakening, is a collection of selected poems by the Chinese poet Zhao Lihong, translated from the Chinese ...

Edmonia Lewis’s marble figures echo neoclassical ideals but recast narratives around subjects including emancipation and ...

Throughout the book, on alternating pages, is an “episodic message” from Phillips, spelling a line from Dante’s “La Vita Nuova,” about Beatrice, Dante’s love. The message roughly translates to, “I ...

Young people's energy and ideas sit at the heart of the bid, said Melanie Onn MP ...

How can general readers who haven’t studied literature properly understand the very peculiar existence that is ‘Yi Sang’? Let ...

VISIONS OF JACK KEROUAC, an exhibition examining the life and work of Jack Kerouac through rare letters, manuscripts, ...

Shirley Rickett’s Tales weaves memoir and poetry into an unflinching life story shaped by memory, art, and the questions that linger after growing up. This book is my attempt to give voice to the ...

“Mammoth,” at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, is a self-portrait through sculpture, video, photography and more. And it lives up to its name.