Readers can sign up to receive Poem-a-Day directly in their inboxes at poets.org/poem-a-day.

Forest fires are devastating America. I'm helping to start more of them.

What a whirlwind year for books. With no shortage of riveting reads across genres, as 2024 draws to a close, we’re looking back on the books published this year that left a lingering impression, from ...

More than a century later, the Gillette-Brown murder case continues to fascinate, and Patrick Maxwell, of Newport, offers a ...

Welcome to Dollar Book Swap in Dayton, Ohio. Nestled in an unassuming building on the outskirts of Dayton, Dollar Book Swap ...

In red states and border counties, lawyers are preparing for war against deportation policies that many relatives and ...

The New Arab speaks with award-winning Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha who has been calling out Israeli crimes through his ...

Between them, James and Whitman represent the distinction between “life conceived as a discipline” and “life conceived as an ...

Here’s a time-tested exam to consider, one that commands wide respect and popularity: the test to qualify as a contestant for the game show Jeopardy.

The classic cartoon, Popeye, and the popular comic book starring Tintin will enter the public domain in 2025 alongside ...

Victor Brombert, the Henry Putnam University Professor of Romance and Comparative Literatures, and an authority on French ...

Oscar Hijuelos's 'Mr. Ives' Christmas' doesn't start out as a cheery story—but in the end, this parable of good will lost and ...