Arts Mar 08 Poet Sonia Sanchez to receive Edward MacDowell Medal The poet, activist and educator Sonia Sanchez is this year’s winner of the Edward MacDowell Medal, a lifetime achievement honor started in 1960 and previously given to Robert Frost, Toni Morrison and Stephen Sondheim among others.
Education Mar 01 Book bans have reached levels not seen in decades — but nationwide activism to oppose them is growing, too The wave of book bannings around the country has reached a level not seen for decades. So has the level of the response.
Arts Feb 17 Elliot Page’s memoir ‘Pageboy’ will be published in 2023 Elliot Page is working on a memoir, in which he will write about everything from his Oscar-nominated film career to becoming a prominent transgender person.
Arts Jan 21 Meat Loaf, ‘Bat Out of Hell’ rock superstar, dies at 74 Meat Loaf, the rock superstar loved by millions for his “Bat Out of Hell” album and for such theatrical, dark-hearted anthems as “Paradise By the Dashboard Light,” “Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad,” and “I’d Do Anything for Love (But…
Arts Jan 08 Marilyn Bergman, Oscar-winning composer, dies at age 93 Marilyn Bergman, the Oscar-winning lyricist who teamed with husband Alan Bergman on “The Way We Were,” “How Do You Keep the Music Playing?” and hundreds of other songs, died at her Los Angeles home Saturday. She was 93.
Arts Jan 07 Oscar winner and groundbreaking star Sidney Poitier dies Sidney Poitier, the groundbreaking actor and enduring inspiration who transformed how Black people were portrayed on screen, became the first Black actor to win an Academy Award for best lead performance and the first to be a top box-office draw,…
Arts Jan 07 Rare Toni Morrison short story to be published as a book To much of the world the late Toni Morrison was a novelist, celebrated for such classics as “Beloved” and “The Bluest Eye.” But the Nobel laureate also completed plays, poems, essays, and a handful of short stories, one of which…
Arts Dec 31 Amanda Gorman writes end-of-year poem, ‘New Day’s Lyric’ The 23-year-old poet, whose reading of her own “The Hill We Climb” at President Joe Biden's inauguration made her an international sensation, posted a new work and accompanying video Wednesday on Instagram to mark the end of 2021.
Arts Dec 18 Hollywood bard, muse and reveler Eve Babitz dies at 78 One of Hollywood’s greatest bards, Eve Babitz, has died at age 78. With love and candor, Babitz chronicled the excess of her native world in the 1960s and 1970s and became a cult figure to generations of readers.
Arts Nov 18 ‘Hell of a Book’ wins National Book Award for fiction The winner of this year's National Book Award for fiction is Jason Mott's "Hell of a Book." It's a surreal meta-narrative about an author's book and his haunted past and present. The winner for nonfiction is Tiya Miles' "All That…