Even if you never pick up a pen, observing your surroundings like a poet is a good habit to develop, author Lola Haskins ...

Many readers wrote in response to the 65-year-old single woman who was struggling with how to reply to people who questioned ...

Dating has never been easy. When my colleague Faith Hill scoured the Atlantic archives for early accounts of romance, she ...

Dear Annie: Like “Independent and Irritated,” I am single in my 60s. I’ve had my share of relationships, and as I got older, ...

Women have known for decades that aging naturally is unacceptable. Older women are rarely seen on screen compared to younger ...

Cristina Rivera Garza’s newly translated novel evokes a mixture of numbness and anxiety in the face of incessant violence.

I came across a column of yours that I had clipped and tucked away. On one of the pages I had dog-eared was the poem, “Decide ...

Forget reggaeton or rap: for children in rural Cuba the epitome of cool is writing and singing a ten-line poem -- a art form ...

I walk around the city without a camera, which is like saying that I feel incomplete, because my memories will die sooner ...

The American scholar of 20th-century literature and culture Elizabeth Outka has argued that works such as The Second Coming ...

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Good Girl,” by the German-born writer Aria Aber, asks what it means to want to belong to a society that wishes you harm.