Poems can promote understanding by taking us behind enemy lines. Threatening to boycott anyone's art or literature will only ...

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Born and raised in New Jersey, Cleveland’s burial in Princeton Cemetery reflects his deep ties to the state. Visitors to his ...

Madonna has plenty of hit songs, but amid her decades-long discography there are some that never really got their due.

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In my wilder dreams, I am a bestselling literary novelist, and the jackets of my books are festooned with quotes from the great and the good. “In 250 pages of clear-eyed, lucid prose, Ben Lawrence has ...

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 ...

Original Coverage Jan. 27 at 8 p.m. - A large SWAT and police presence has been reported in the Whitman neighborhood. Police are staging in the area of North Perry Street and East Sanson Avenue.

If I felt slightly silly coming to this ancient tourist trap every year, I was comforted that arguably the world’s coolest tourist, the exiled Russian, Nobel Prize-winning poet Joseph Brodsky ...

Our critic A.O. Scott shows you what he loves about it. Isabella Cotier By A.O. Scott Poems aren’t pictures, but sometimes they try to make us see, and to make us feel in ways we might associate ...