Vuong's new novel, The Emperor of Gladness, is the first he's written, from start to finish, since his mother died in 2019.

In her memoir “Things in Nature Merely Grow,” Yiyun Li tries to honor the lives, and accept the unfathomable deaths, of her ...

Sophie Butler, 40, lost her mam, Rita Oxman, to bowel cancer in 2021 and has since written a book of poems in her honour ...

A: That poem is my play on the idea of the smoke as the idealized and unattainable mother. There’s an unattainable ... that I felt from my friend after death, and from other people, by ...

We are satisfied, if you are; but why did I die?" Randall Jarrell (1914-1965) was an American poet who also wrote criticism, ...

The artist’s sprawling survey at the Guggenheim reveals an intellect unfolding and a life under way.

The lines kept playing in my mind, like a song. I asked a few people, neighbors, street sellers, drivers, ‘What are you going ...

A special effects artist and cinematographer, he also worked on “2001: A Space Odyssey” and “Tron,” and took a detour to ...

Robert Raymond Cook was executed roughly 65 years ago after being found guilty of killing his father Raymond Cook while being ...

Though police say no foul play was involved, there are some who continue to believe the death of 36-year-old Caitlin Grautski ...

Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips.

NPR's Scott Simon asks poet Edward Hirsch about his new memoir, written in poem-like snippets. It is called "My Childhood in Pieces." ...