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Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes on Oct. 13, 2008. Photo by Pierre-Philippe Marcou/AFP/GettyImages. Carlos Fuentes had aged so beautifully you might have subconsciously assumed he would live forever, like a character in a Latin American novel. He moved easily through…

From Aleksandr Pushkin to Aleksandr Griboyedov, there is a long history in Russia of writers confronting government authority. Last weekend, the tradition continued when a group of 12 well-known authors drew a crowd of around 10,000 to follow them on…

A woman walks past "Living together" by Chinese artist Xu Jiang at the Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau museum in Dresden, Germany, on Tuesday. With more than 150 paintings and works on paper as well as two sculptures, the exhibit is Xu's…

Elana Bell is the author of "Eyes, Stone" (2012, LSU Press), winner of the Walt Whitman Award for 2011. Her poems have appeared in Harvard Review, Massachusetts Review, CALYX, and elsewhere. Bell is the writer-in-residence at the Bronx Academy of…

A puppet of Queen Elizabeth II features in a Punch & Judy show Sunday during a weekend of performances in London to celebrate 350 years since the first performance in England.