A model poses in a representation of Edward Hopper's painting "Morning Sun" at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid. The exhibition, "Hopper," brings together the largest selection of works by the artist ever to be shown in Europe. Photo by Javier…

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Heather Christle is the author of "What Is Amazing" (Wesleyan University Press), "The Difficult Farm" (Octopus Books, 2009) and "The Trees The Trees" (Octopus Books, 2011), which won the 2012 Believer Poetry Award.

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Revelers dance down Fifth Avenue in New York City during the Puerto Rican Day Parade on Sunday.

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They began as status updates on Facebook, but Lou Beach came to see something more in the short pieces he was writing -- a new form of short story, in fact. And it's an interesting and compelling approach, indeed, in…

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The Merengue Dancing Dog performs onstage at "This Tent" during the first day of the Bonaroo Music and Arts Festival in Manchester, Tenn.

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New Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey 'Explores the Human Struggles We All Face'…

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Audra McDonald is set to make Tony Award history. If she wins on Sunday, McDonald will be the first African-American actress to win five Tony Awards and will be tied with Julie Harris and Angela Lansbury for most wins by…

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Pulitzer Prize-winner Natasha Trethewey will be the 19th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry, the Library of Congress announced on Thursday.

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Spaniards dressed as, clockwise from top left, an American Indian, a sand man, Elvis Presley, a matador, Charlie Chaplin, a bronze sweeper, a newspaper man and the Invisible Man perform near Puerta del Sol in Madrid. Ever since the beginning…

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Ray Bradbury, author of classic books such as "Fahrenheit 451" and "The Martian Chronicles," died Tuesday night at the age of 91. Jeffrey Brown and bestselling novelist Lev Grossman, who is also a book critic for Time magazine, discuss Bradbury's…

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