He’s a perceptive reader, and he has a knack for writing about poems in ways that lend shape and even excitement to the act of reading and thinking about them. He’s also comfortable ignoring some of ...

Emily Dickinson explained what the feeling of writing poetry is like, “If I feel physically as if the top of my head were ...

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

Je suis né croyant.” I’ve been snagging on that phrase for decades. It means, “I was born believing.” The mystic modernist ...

Seattle Reads is the library’s citywide book group, with more than 20 programs planned in April and May, including events with U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón on May 16 and 17. Find a copy of “You Are ...

Take a few minutes to communicate important information so that the visiting teacher and your students know what to do while ...

Family isn’t always easy, but it’s one of the most powerful parts of life. Whether it’s a quiet moment, a surprise act of ...

Mohsen Mahdawi was arrested at a citizenship interview in Vermont. He had spent a decade trying to understand the conflict ...

A deeper dive into the language of the arguments shows how the arguments themselves – and not teen books – undermine and harm teens.

On April 16, 2025, RFK Jr. held a news conference to speak on his plans to “eliminate” autism. He pushed the resoundingly debunked claim that some sort of “environmental exposure” ( meaning vaccines) ...

The FBI offers a few tips to avoid a romance scam. Here are just a few: Never send money to anyone you’ve only communicated ...