Poetry isn't as scary as you think. These 14 collections of poems tackle everything from grief and race to family and love.

Marginality, mass death—these are just a few of the reasons why the oeuvre of Essex Hemphill, who died of the virus in 1995, ...

It does not happen regularly that authors devote parts of a novel to epistolary storytelling. It is a risky terrain, that too ...

By encouraging people to imagine beyond their own experience, reading poetry can serve as an exercise in seeing things from a ...

At the end of My Oxford Year, the classroom returns like a quiet refrain. New students settle in, books open, notebooks ready ...

In 2012, when Thattathin Marayathu — now considered a cult Malayalam film — released, one of the most striking elements for ...

True love knows no distance. These five romantic poems capture the feelings of a heart in love, dreaming of a reunion despite ...

Meg Waite Clayton is the author of nine novels, including “The Race for Paris,” “The Last Train to London,” and “The ...

While the “My Oxford Year” adaptation follows these elements of the book’s overall story arc, it waters down the rest of the ...

A sense of distance has always been part of romantic love. The experience of wanting to be with another person often requires ...

At first glance, My Oxford Year might seem like a familiar story. A brilliant young woman gives up a secure job in finance, ...