Sahitya Akademi cancelled an event in Kolkata after backlash regarding an invited speaker, Bengali poet Srijato Bandyopadhyay ...

Poetry is not easy to compose, nor is it easy to write about. Like music, poetry requires a certain immersion into the composition one hears via their ...

Shakespeare once wrote that a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet. But when it comes to punk rock, John Simon ...

She had to be pushed to write her new memoir, “Book of Lives.” The result reveals the experiences (and a few slights) that have shaped her work.

Yellow Flower Gills Me Whole exhibits a perspective that seems to sit outside of time. At times, Ghosh’s poems shift between humorous, profound, risqué and sensual. Others suggest a profound ...

He was the city’s brightest pop star, but also its most disarming contradiction — elegant, emotional, and impossible to ...

Marsy’s Law isn’t just a constitutional amendment — it’s a promise. A promise of dignity, privacy, safety, and a voice for victims. But promises must be kept. Rights must be more than words — they ...

Citing a chronic shortage of financial backing for independent publishers and nonprofits dedicated to writing and reading, a coalition of seven charitable foundations has ...

Stacker compiled a list highlighting 28 LGBTQ+ people who made a mark on history, referencing articles, personal letters, and books.

The Justice Department is investigating Black Lives Matter over donor fraud allegations tied to $90M in donations ...

In the summer of 1776, Thomas Jefferson arrived in Philadelphia to help define a new nation — even as his own life embodied the inequalities of enslavement.

Just what is it about France that makes so many people fall deeply, irrevocably in love with it? Australian-British author ...