As a religion scholar, however, I believe one of the greatest loves in the Bible is a story of friendship: the intense ...

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With the dawn of a ceasefire in Gaza, the writer reflects on collections by Palestinian poets that don’t lose sight of love and wonder in the face of exile and destruction.

Flaco, the Eurasian eagle-owl that escaped from the Central Park Zoo in 2023, is still with us (even though he’s dead).

Longley was born in July 1939 and lived in the city until his death ... explored in in some of his poems, including The Ice-Cream Man. Versatile poet's work ranged from nature to civil strife In 1994, ...

I was delighted recently to discover that three of my favorite authors, all from extremely different backgrounds and ...

Paul Fussell’s 50-year-old survey of trench warfare deserves a new generation of readers, our book critic writes.

One of the most beautiful poems I have always remembered was found ... to give Eichmann a life sentence or sentence him to death. I remember listening to the news at my aunt’s home at midnight ...

She’d been close to death before: after a suicide attempt on a plane in 1969 ... where I spoke with her about her beautiful, unsparing album about getting older, Negative Capability. “But you try and ...

Shaham’s irresistible playing of Dvořák’s Violin Concerto in A Minor was part of a Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra program that ...

Homer and Odysseus live in a world where there is no one morality common to all people. Odysseus is never condemned for being ...

A lustrous scion of fin-de-siècle Vienna, she was born Alma Maria Schindler, the daughter of the operetta singer Anna Bergen ...