Jacques Roubaud, a poet and mathematician whose formalist rigor and mind-bending imagery earned him France’s major poetry ...

American artist Suze Rotolo, Elle Fanning's character in James Mangold's Bob Dylan biopic 'A Complete Unknown.' ...

At a time when many Americans are on edge, it seems appropriate to revisit one of the best arguments for faith and hope, and ...

Two boys, one classic novel, and a lesson for the technology age: not all disinformation is dangerous.

“Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus,” Church wrote. “He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and ...

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way,” begins Leo Tolstoy’s novel Anna Karenina. This ...

In the old days, all a kid wanted for Christmas was their two front teeth, and maybe something from the Sears Wish Book catalog like Spirograph or roller skates.

“ Wicked ” is one of several versions of the Wizard of Oz story told from different perspectives — including Dorothy’s in the original “The Wizard of Oz” film and the wizard’s in the film “Oz, the ...

The popular poem, actually titled “A Visit From St. Nicholas,” first appeared in The Times’s pages in 1896. “In thousands of ...

The journalist Francis P. Church, a native of Rochester, wrote thousands of editorials for The New York Sun. He is known for just one: an unsigned response to a letter from an 8-year-old girl being ...

One of this nation’s most enduring Christmas tales is the reply by Francis P. Church, editorial writer for the New York Sun, ...