Monet’s ‘Waterlilies,’” by Robert Hayden, reflects on what art can (and can’t) do in tumultuous times. Our critic A.O. Scott ...

Studying poetry is not as scary as it seems. To many people who have taken an English class in their lives, poetry can seem like a daunting, confusing and incomprehensible task. Sometimes the verse is ...

Jordan believed poetry had the power to teach and educate, and she did not shy away from difficult word choices to appease ...

Prof Erin McCarthy from the University of Galway talks about her ERC-funded project STEMMA and the value of curiosity-driven frontier research.

Uddalak Mukherjee’s article, “Let there be dark” (Oct 29), offers resistance against the tyranny of light just as P.B.

Katharine Lee Bates, a professor of English at Wellesley College, had a chestnut-eyed collie named Hamlet and a green parrot named Polonius. She taught Shakespeare, and she wrote poetry. She loved to ...

What do displays of national pride mean when they are no longer accompanied by the mass shared grief that gave rise to them?

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The politics of The Rot stem from a darker time. If still angry, this book also feels sadder. Despair cannot pass without ...

A new english translation of 'Class of 95' — an anthology about Yitzhak Rabin's murder — aims to revive his memory among American Jews.

This seems like a marvelous moment to… recommit to one’s own path in the world through one’s own mind, body, and spirit, free ...

White House issues four-word response to Joan Baez poem about Trump’s brain being eaten by ‘little green worm’ - Trump’s Secretary of Health, Robert F Kennedy Jr, said last year that a worm ate part o ...