A lustrous scion of fin-de-siècle Vienna, she was born Alma Maria Schindler, the daughter of the operetta singer Anna Bergen ...

George Oppen’s “From a Photograph” turns a wintry snapshot into a moving meditation on parenthood and the passage of time.

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Sonia Sanchez is one of the most powerful voices in American poetry, a literary giant whose work spans decades of activism, ...

"The children new to school enjoy coloring illustrations in textbooks," says Li Hongbo, an art professor at Jilin Normal ...

James Brandon Lewis is an omnivore’s omnivore. The jazz saxophonist’s fantastic new album channels the work of Don Cherry, ...

Between Sunrise and Sunset, a seminal installation by Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim, offers a deeply personal meditation on time, ...

On her latest book, ‘Openings’, the short story as a form, diasporic writing, and why she believes that life actually happens ...

In our first episode back after the Oscar nominations, we chat with 'Nickel Boys' filmmaker RaMell Ross and costume designer ...

The avant-garde artist cemented her fame with the achingly personal “Magdalene.” Her new club album, “Eusexua,” looks outward ...

When RaMell Ross speaks about filmmaking, he doesn’t talk about entertainment or box office success. Instead, he describes his work as “knowledge production” – a means of engaging with the world’s ...

Observant members of the Australian literary world have been amazed by the Times Literary Supplement of September 10, 2010. I ...