The formidable novelist and philosopher, who died in 1999, thought her poetry was mediocre. It’s not. By Dwight Garner When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an ...

I Asked Him What He Needed” is USC professor Ed Madden’s newest book. Fueled by 2025 stories about deportation, the work comments on law and U.S. history.

Two time-stamped poems are taken from a book-length sequence tracking the human moments of a factory night shift 01.29 When we look up at stars on break we see only stars behind the exhaled Milky Way ...

Sawyer Wilhelmi presented ‘The Prairie Town,’ by Helen Santmyer, in the final round of the Poetry Out Loud contest held recently in Bismarck.

learned to ride a bike, no stabilisers. Happy out. He throws the bike down, runs to the swings. I look up, the sky’s still hiding behind a canopy of green, the risen shriek holds its note until, ...

MANILA, Philippines — Have you been utterly busy last Christmas season that you could not even pick up a book to read? Well, you can make up for it this year, as 2026 brings a tantalizing promise of ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

On Page 76 of the 1959 Hibbing, Minnesota, high school yearbook, a certain member of the senior class is quoted as vowing “to join ‘Little Richard’” after graduation. That didn’t happen. Once this ...

In ‘Destination Anywhere’ Melanie Oliveiro finds out where - in Suntec City - Singaporeans can go to experience some mega Chinese New Year-themed interactive activities & shopping experiences. Chiew ...

Several best-selling books will make way for returning TV shows and new ones in 2026. One of the first major arrivals in January was A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, based on George R. R. Martin’s The ...

What was the formative sound of your childhood? Maybe it was the M train rattling the windows of your bedroom as it hurtled past your apartment six times an hour. Maybe it was the crunch of gravel in ...

Greg Delanty’s latest collections are No More Time and The Professor of Forgetting. He teaches at Saint Michael’s College, Vermont. His awards include a Guggenheim for poetry. Sweeney Now is due for ...