In the Ancient Greek epic poem “The Odyssey,” Odysseus’ men strap him to the mast of the ship so he could hear the sirens’ ...

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Sometimes reading poetry can feel exhilarating, like you are finally seeing and being seen. Other times it’s a slog that ...

Vincenzo Latronico’s slender volume captures a culture of exquisite taste, tender sensitivities, and gnawing discontent.

Late Australian poet Dorothy Porter could take a mere handful of words and do extraordinary things with them. Her sister, ...

The impossibility of conveying in ordinary Yiddish the experience of walking through the empty streets of one’s eradicated ...

My personal statement for my college applications was about Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken.” One of my favorite ...

Every year on July 4, all district children between the ages of 12 and 18 are entered into a lottery, and one boy and one ...

National Book Award-winning novel, 'James,' Percival Everett grapples with philosophical and metaphysical questions as well as racial issues, while enveloping all in sarcasm and irony.

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These days, Alissa Quart’s attention has broken into strange shapes. But she has found a reprieve in one thing: poetry.