The book that inspired today’s playlist, the cultural critic Lucy Sante’s “I Heard Her Call My Name,” isn’t about music per se. As its subtitle attests, it is mostly “a memoir of transition,” centered ...

The interview with the translator of 'Firelets' highlights the challenges and motivations behind translating Bharati's poems.

But all poetry, even funny poems and short poems for kids, has a common thread: The poets who write it are interpreters. They take an honest look at events and emotions and boil them down to some ...

By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.