Roland Barthes’ notion that the author is dead has been incredibly influential, though it was not as original or ...

Madeline Miller spent over a decade writing The Song of Achilles – a fantasy romance retelling of Homer’s epic poem The Iliad ...

He wrote more than 130 books, mostly collections of poetry and translations of classics, as well as lowbrow novels under a ...

John Koethe spent decades as a philosophy professor. The poems in his latest collection, “Cemeteries and Galaxies,” are full ...

Strings announced his mom's death during his show in Lexington, Ky., on Friday, June 20 ...

This idea, called longevity escape velocity (LEV) by biogerontologist Aubrey de Grey, imagines a moment when medical ...

Dad and Jimmy Carter's poetry I can’t help but wonder what my dad would think of Jimmy Carter’s death and where we are today. Dad was an American Baptist minister.

‘90% of the Poems Here Are About Death’: Ukraine Grieves a Poet-Soldier Maksym Kryvtsov's verses connected people with the front lines. Last month, he was killed in battle.

Poem of the Day: ‘Night and Death’ Joseph Blanco White wrote some now mostly forgotten poetry, but this sonnet, orginally dedicated to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, should not be allowed to fade away.