In one of her poems from the collection Love Letter from the Afterlife, Andrea Gibson writes, “Why did no one tell us that to ...

How an Ovid-quoting London broadsheet from the late seventeenth century spawned “Dear Abby,” Dan Savage, and Reddit’s Am I ...

The reactionary blogger’s call for a monarch to rule the country once seemed like a joke. Now the right is ready to bend the ...

This Friday, June 6, actor Hermione Norris will step onto the Salisbury Playhouse stage in a spellbinding new production.

Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin’s Ordinary Saints and Catherine Airey’s Confessions have made the six-strong shortlist for the £5,000 ...

The world’s at war, and inside Calcutta’s swankiest hotel, there’s champagne, swing music and scandal. It’s 1941, and while war drums echo across continents, the Great Eastern Hotel clinks with ...

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there’s a Someday music fest, Parisian bake-off and street fair and Night in Spain, the Taste of Somerville, Shakespeare in the park, ...

Look for the simple building with the straightforward sign. Pull into the no-frills parking lot. Walk inside, order at the counter, and prepare for a barbecue revelation that explains why people drive ...

On this week’s episode, A.O. Scott joins host Gilbert Cruz to talk about the value of close reading poetry. And the Book Review’s poetry editor Greg Cowles recommends four recently published ...

In 16 wonderfully imaginative letter poems, Newbery Honoree Sidman imagines both sides of typewritten correspondences between unlikely pen-pal pairs, including a school and one of its bricks ...