Henry Taylor, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who drew on his upbringing in rural Northern Virginia — galloping on horseback, ...

Leonard Cohen's songs are poems, but not every poem he wrote became a song. These are a mix of some of his definitive works that define Cohen as a wordsmith.

Dr. Gilbert and colleague Susan Gubar shook up literary studies by seeing feminist defiance woven into works by female ...

Netflix’s ‘A Man on the Inside’ begins as a comedy about a man finding his footing in a new career while in his late 70s, but ...

Existential psychologists suggested that mortality salience motivates our choices. Terror management theorists agree.

This collection of Sufi saint Shaikh Sarmad’s Persian quatrains translated by Syeda Saiyidain Hameed and Reyaz Ahmad is a ...

How a friendship that was born online—and remained online until the very end—was the most honest and supportive one of my ...

Shuntaro Tanikawa, who pioneered modern Japanese poetry, poignant but conversational in its divergence from haiku and other traditions, has died. He was 92.

In their new collections, Mosab Abu Toha and Najwan Darwish share unvarnished views of destruction, displacement and loss.

"The whole speech of a dying man delivering justice is something that haunts the whole family to this day, 10 years later. It ...

Biologist sought to breed crops that could store more carbon safely underground in their roots.