What happened in April 1775 in and near Boston is an important chapter of the story of why, how and by whom America was birthed.

It's the middle of April in '25, and hardly a man or woman is now alive who knows by heart the opening of the Henry Wadsworth ...

No other aspect of the American Revolution is as useful a metaphor for people all along the political spectrum.

Seven centuries ago, in the very first great work which we can read as English … a 17,000-line poem … the very third word is ...

One of the late Jacques Derrida’s most useful exercises in linguistic play was to hyphenate “represent.” The word that ...

While most people initially used ChatGPT’s new image update to transform themselves or family portraits into adorable, Studio ...

Broadway’s 2024-25 season has gotten off to a rather extraordinarily fine start, from the wildly popular and hysterically funny Oh, Mary! to the fabulous splash of Death Becomes Her and the wonderful ...

As the nation commemorates the 250th anniversary of the War for Independence, the contributions of Black patriots are at risk ...

For National Poetry Month, we talk with Richard Blanco, whose “One Today” poem was read at Barack Obama’s second inauguration ...

Paul Revere was immortalized by Longfellow's poem and became an American icon. William Dawes, the other midnight rider, is ...

This is a consolidation of nine essays which were published during 2021 in English and in Portuguese by several national ...