Pay attention to allusions to famous figures and important world events, and think about their roles, and how they are used: Do they support the narrator’s argument, or strengthen the poem’s ...

When grief seems impossible to express, let the literary greats lend a helping hand and provide some much-needed comfort with ...

One of her most famous poems is “Timeless,” about women living in the current times. Phillis Wheatley, an enslaved woman later embraced by abolitionists to bolster their argument that Black ...

Sometimes we all need a cathartic cry. If that’s you today, then give these beautiful and moving poems, selected by women including Judi Dench, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Elena Ferrante, a read.

I have been thinking a lot about Ted Chiang’s piece on artificial intelligence (AI) in the New Yorker. His basic argument is ...

Socrates’ recurrent dream shows that valuable insights from dreaming can blossom forth at any time of life, all the way ...

At the end of each of Rooney’s novels, love triumphs partly because it might be the only form of solidarity, the only glimpse ...

For years, Jason Rohrer put out bizarre, beloved video games. Now, with Project Skydrop, he launches (yes, today) the ...

On Thursday, video game developer Jason Rohrer unveiled "Project Skydrop," a treasure hunt in New England featuring a solid ...

Since the Dobbs decision, public speech about abortion is no longer rare. What was silence has become an uproar.

Scoot McNairy and Mackenzie Davis play the victims in a remake of the 2022 Danish horror movie about two families holed up in ...

During the Age of Sail, sailors riding the trade winds past the equator dreaded becoming stranded in the doldrums, a meteorologically distinct region in the deep tropics. For at least a century, ...