In his poem “Ithaka,” the Greek writer C.P. Cavafy offers both sympathy and wisdom to Odysseus, Homer’s hero, as he returns ...

The Hadar Institute, an educational institution on the Upper West Side of Manhattan has long been known for its high level of ...

Alex Garland and Danny Boyle keep their focus extremely tight for a disturbing tale iterating on the zombie genre’s tropes ...

In honor of Audiobook Appreciation Month, here are seven outstanding recent titles to accompany long Seattle summer days.

Barry Hill’s new poetry collection Lamb blends insightful, impatient and powerful commentary with grandfatherly reflections ...

I must thank my fellow journalists over at Austin Monthly for throwing the third annual Burger Bash, where experts from ...

Broadway.com's 25th anniversary celebration continues with another roundup that defines the past 25 years of Broadway. We've ...

One example features the image of a "fat rat" as a symbol of greedy exploiters, offering a sharp critique of social injustice ...

Everything human is recorded in the long history of poetry ... s poets Audio Poem of the Day – from Poetry Foundation – daily audio recordings of classic and contemporary poems read by ...

Harrison A proverb is a short poem long on wisdom. Some familiar proverbs ... Take, for instance, the classic adage: "A stitch in time saves nine." This simple reminder offers us the value of ...

"It’s probably one of the great prose-poetry embodiments of longing ... Scott Fitzgerald set the classic novel of America’s jazz age on Long Island? The simplest explanation is because ...

now long dead. But the act of remembering always takes place amid natural as well as personal history: Merwin’s poetry has an ecological awareness that he sharpened through decades of work ...