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

At a final dress rehearsal, Hanna laughed at how “The Tempest” has become a traditional farewell to theater-making, precisely ...

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When Eliza Acton’s second collection of poetry was denied publication, she pivoted. The result—an engaging recipe book geared ...

Every night, in the depths of the Colca Canyon, a poem appeared on my pillow, the lines printed on a single sheet of ...

“That’s my nephew,” came the falafel guy’s fast reply. “He fell in the war three months ago.” Stunned silence reigned before we returned to our senses and expressed our profound sorrow at his beloved ...

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

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Graydon Carter speaks in his memoir with misty-eyed melancholy for the page counts and ad revenues of years gone by.

Marcel et Monsieur Pagnol, directed by Sylvain Chomet, will be presented in a special screening at the Cannes Film Festival ...

History has always been unfair to women and Maniammai is no exception. Most women leaders’ lives and work go unacknowledged ...

His latest novel, Witchcraft for Wayward Girls, heads to the sweaty oppression of 1970s Florida as a group of young women ...