John Smyth, who died in 2018 aged 77, was born in Canada to parents who were members of the cultish Plymouth Brethren. The ...

Generations of children have grown up reading A.A. Milne’s stories of Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends in the Hundred Acre Wood. First published in 1924 and later brought to life in numerous films and ...

Oxford believed that his wife had been unfaithful to him while he was away on a European tour and (for a time, at least) seems to have doubted that he was the father of her first child. Hamlet says to ...

Lili Anolik’s “Didion & Babitz” is a sparkling and ardent look at the conflicting sensibilities of two iconic Californians ...

Philadelphia’s K-8 public school students are being taught a new literacy curriculum starting in the 2024-2025 school year.

In a newly published study, participants had difficulty distinguishing AI-written poems from those written by famous human ...

Reginald Gibbons — a renowned poet, literary critic and Northwestern University professor — wrote the following poem for the ...

New poetry collection from Carolyn Oliver. In her new collection of poetry “The Alcestis Machine” (Acre), Carolyn Oliver tracks paths between the here we know and the gaping s ...

Of punctuation there was little; she used chiefly dashes, and it has been thought better, in printing these letters, as with her poems, to give them the benefit in this respect of the ordinary usages; ...

At age eleven, Ezra calculated the age of the world by summing the years before and since the Flood. Its high-water mark fell ...