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Literary Voices Reflect on Health Care

By Arts Desk

Some popular writers have turned up in an unexpected place: Health Affairs. The contributions are a part of the 10th anniversary of "Narrative Matters," a feature that maintains that health-policy debate must have room for the experiences of regular people.

In London, Antony Gormley's 'One & Other'

Twenty four hours a day for 100 straight days, different people will join kings and generals high atop London's Trafalgar Square, becoming, if only for an hour, a living monument.

Simon Johnson on China and the U.S. Economy

By Business Desk

Paul Solman: The second in this week’s series of video exchanges with Simon Johnson of the Peterson Institute of Economics, MIT, and (formerly) the IMF, concerns China.

Weekly Poem: 'Like Hearing Your Name Called in a Language You Don't Understand'

"C.D. Wright has published 13 collections of poetry and prose. "Like Hearing Your Name Called in a Language You Don't Understand" is taken from "Rising, Falling, Hovering" (Copper Canyon, 2008), which in June won the Griffin Poetry Prize.

Conversation: Joseph O'Neill, Author of 'Netherland'

By Arts Desk

For his book "Netherland," author Joseph O'Neill had a unique vantage point to explore the now-familiar literary terrain of post-9/11 New York. Not well known to most American readers, New York City's cricket-playing community is certainly well known to O'Neill,…

Writer, poet Jim Harrison is a determined 'outsider'

Most of Jim Harrison's 32 books have been set in the sparsely populated areas he knows well: Northern Michigan, the Sandhills of Nebraska, the Arizona-Mexico border and in the beautiful "Paradise Valley" near Livingston, Mt., where he now lives much…

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Writer Jim Harrison Is a Determined 'Outsider'

Jim Harrison Reads 'Calendars' and Other Poems

Poet Jim Harrison reads his poem "Calendars," which explores the passage of time.

Jim Harrison

Poet Jim Harrison reads some of his poems.

Conversation: Chimamanda Adichie, Author of 'The Thing Around Your Neck'

By Arts Desk

In her new short story collection, "The Thing Around Your Neck," Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie moves back and forth between two continents the way she has in real life.