On February 11, 1963, following a long struggle with depression, Sylvia Plath died by suicide in her London home at the age ...

(THE CONVERSATION) To celebrate Father’s Day, The Conversation U.S. asked Philadelphia anthropologist, playwright and poetic ethnographer Kimmika Williams-Witherspoon to reflect on a poem she recently ...

Dominic Amerena’s debut novel explores the selfish side of literary life: the desire to have a real story, no matter who it ...

In Las Vegas, a city built on promises and fantasy, Omelet House deals in something far more valuable: authenticity. For visitors to Vegas looking to escape the artificial wonderland of the Strip, ...

I stayed because I found my people: idealists disguised as cynics, romantics with ink-stained knuckles, skeptics who believed ...

One of the only unambiguous extended pleasures I experienced in 2020 was that of reading all five volumes of “The Cazalet ...

At 7:02 p.m. Monday evening at the Huntington Theatre, a theater employee walked down the aisle advising, “Three minutes till ...

Or at least it seems that way. The romantic poetry of this poem sneaks up on you. Its music is subtle, but unmistakable. Rhymes, rather than hanging at the end of lines like ornaments on a tree ...

The best quotes from the racing world this week . . . Some people get addicted to things. You can get addicted to smoking or to this or to that, but if people get addicted to something it's a case of ...

“A Promise To You" is a deeply personal reflection on the emotional turmoil I felt while being away from my firstborn daughter, Leia (6 years old, at the time), during my younger daughter Chloe's ...

I have memorized poems on park benches and in bed ... where my anxiety otherwise sits. I won’t promise you that memorizing poetry will make your life better, but it will make you more: more ...