NISHTER is a Persian word and it means a lancet, a surgical knife or blade. The 72 nishters or lancets, or 72 heart-pricking couplets, of Mir Taqi Mir was the mantra in Urdu criticism ever since ...

Kristie Frederick Daugherty is celebrating National Poetry Month in April by partnering with Swift Alert to connect Swifties to poetry.

Reclusive American novelist Thomas Pynchon has a new novel slated to be published this fall, his first since 2013’s Bleeding Edge. The author Gravity’s Rainbow, The Crying of Lot 49, Inherent Vice and ...

The book, out this fall, also includes watercolor illustrations by Pamela Sztybel Poet Billy Collins is showing readers a doggone great time in his latest book. The former U.S. Poet Laureate has ...

Aimee Semple McPherson took to the radio to spread the Gospel, but her mysterious disappearance cast a shadow on her ...

The New York Times' Instagram page posted a poetry quiz from the book for fans to guess which poem was written in response to one of Taylor Swift’s songs. According to that post, the anthology ...

Graydon Carter speaks in his memoir with misty-eyed melancholy for the page counts and ad revenues of years gone by.

Missoula's community cinema is screening a new documentary on the enigmatic comedian, plus the dramedy "The Penguin Lessons" and "The Two Towers." ...

The subject of numerous controversies, she is defined by ambiguity, welcoming outcasts to the Church and provoking more ...

Terese Marie Mailhot is a writer from Seabird Island, B.C. (Isaiah Mailhot, Penguin Random House Canada ... these issues are more than just subjects on the page. After a difficult childhood ...

The first hollow Easter egg was invented in 1873, by Fry’s. Cadbury slightly later in 1875 created the modern Easter egg as ...

Nona Uppal (26), wears many hats—writer, content creator, entrepreneur, and now, romance author with Penguin. With two more books in the works, her world is built on stories and sentences. Life + ...