Poet, essayist and cultural critic Hanif Abdurraqib paced backstage at the Logan Center for the Arts, 915 E. 60th St., like a ...

Theodore McDowell is a poet who has published five poetry books exploring trauma, forgiveness, and relationships. The five ...

There were muses specifically for comedy, tragedy and even erotica. The oldest was Calliope, mother of the legendary musician ...

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The K-drama 'Love Next Door' on Netflix has lots of cultural references and phrases that might be confusing. Here's an ...

Hazy Jane is seven musicians out of New Jersey who have been coming together to paint indie rock pictures since 2018. The ...

The Hong Kong writer’s penchant for transforming taboo subjects—death, illness, or gender—into fodder for intellectual ...

Han Kang, 53, was named the winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize in literature. Just one day before, Korea had celebrated the promulgation of Hangul, the writing system of Korean, a language formerly ...

In “Riding Like the Wind,” Iris Jamahl Dunkle recounts Babb’s adventurous life and makes the case for her neglected books.

But this first biography makes me feel like I know him and his large body of work intimately. Michael Nott, coeditor of “The ...

Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun is not only the first play by a black woman to premiere on Broadway, back in 1959, ...

John Yamrus, who has seen the publication of more than 3,500 of his poems over the course of his five-decade long career, has had his work taught in a number of colleges and universities.