I did a geography degree, and there’s a circularity in the way things have turned out: I was reading poems when I should have ...

A.O. Scott ponders the specific gravity and unlikely grace of Kay Ryan’s “Turtle.” And we have a game to help you memorize it ...

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F or Jeremy Bentham, a philosopher, poetry was simply writing that “fails” to reach the end of the line. For W.H. Auden, a ...

“The Golden Bowl” is about two couples. One is made up of an Italian prince who marries an American woman named Maggie, the daughter of an extremely wealthy man. In the other, a school friend of ...

The artist creates a dynamic conversation between the museum’s historic art and architecture and the fluidity of contemporary ...

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A humorous and heartfelt twist as a cholo delivers love poems with street-style charm and unexpected sweetness.

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