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The brainchild of former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky, the National Favorite Poem Project was launched in 1997 to ...

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The UK is home to some of the world’s most iconic burial sites, where history’s most celebrated figures rest in peace – each with their own fascinating story. From a Scottish market town to the ...

Set in the recent past, Austin Kelley's debut novel centers on a magazine underling who becomes entranced with a Manic Pixie ...

The term is applied to radically different compositions across more than 1,000 years of history. We need a better definition.

The cottage where poet and artist William Blake wrote the hymn Jerusalem has received a large injection of funds for ...

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Mario Vargas Llosa, one of the most celebrated writers in Latin America and the first Peruvian to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, has died at 89. The author died on Sunday surrounded by his family.

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Art Hounds highlight Cherokee-language puppetry, a comedy showcase by Hmong and Asian American performers and a deep dive ...

Mario Vargas Llosa, a Nobel literature laureate who challenged Peru's powerful military in the early 1960s, has died at 89 ...