Poetry Aug 02

For her new project "Whitman in Alabama," Jennifer Crandall spent two years crisscrossing the state and asking Alabamians to recite Whitman to find the threads that tie us together as a nation.

Arts Aug 01

In his new book "The Cooking Gene," historian Michael W. Twitty traces the culinary roots of the South.

Arts Aug 01

New findings from a Harvard comparative literature professor suggest that Nabokov's seminal work "Lolita" may have been inspired by two works by surrealist painter Salvador Dali.

Arts Jul 28

Author and media executive Madhulika Sikka made a goal in 2017 to read 52 books in 52 weeks -- all of them by women, and many women of color -- to offset an overload of news and highlight books that…

Arts Jul 28

“It’s the most controversial topic in the world. It’s the biggest selling book, most banned, destroyed, influential book … We will irritate everybody.” - Cary Summers, President of Museum of the Bible…

Politics Jul 25

In the liberal city of Portland, Oregon Trump supporters are a small but increasingly vocal group who hold a wide range of beliefs. Some are extremists. Others hold more moderate views. But they all have one belief in common: The…

Poetry Jul 24

Nicole Sealey's new poetry collection asks us if, like the Greek figure of Sisyphus, we can find contentment even when life is difficult and absurd…

Poetry Jul 17

Fifty years ago this month, a protest in Detroit turned into a riot, which turned into five days of violence that left dozens dead, thousands arrested and a city engulfed in flames. The poem "They Feed They Lion" chronicles the…

Arts Jul 13

It was a glorious, packed, binge-worthy season of television. Watch live as the nominees for the Emmy Awards, honoring the best of those shows, are announced Thursday.

Politics Jul 11

At a press conference Tuesday afternoon, Rep. Adam Schiff, D- Calif., called the emails Donald Trump Jr. released Tuesday "very significant, deeply disturbing new public information."…