Bard bashing has become something of a national sport, says Robert McCrum, and the latest attempt to rewrite the legacy of ...

An insomniac’s musings on World Sleep Day, Shakespeare’s obsession with sleep, Keats’ poetic drowsiness, Murakami’s soporific ...

From the Pittsburgh Fringe Festival to the Spring Flower Show to a mushroom hunt and experimental film, here's what to do ...

Strictly Ballroom, Romeo + Juliet, and Moulin Rouge! make up Bag Luhrmann's Red Curtain Trilogy. Which movie is best?

Poetry is an art-form and a deeply personal, introspective form of catharsis for many. And, for Banbridge-born poet Colin ...

That transcendent experience awaits at Kissimmee Bakery, a modest culinary jewel nestled in Kissimmee, Florida, where tamales ...

World Poetry Day 2025 celebrates poetry’s power to promote peace, inclusion, and cultural exchange, featuring global poets ...

A new production of Othello foregrounds what its earliest audiences recognized: the psychological costs of war.

Virginia Festival of the Book honors the late Nikki Giovanni, a retired Virginia Tech English professor, with a tribute on ...

Hartford Symphony Orchestra, led by musical director Carolyn Kuan, has announced its 2025-26 Masterworks series, which will run from September 2025 through April 2026 at The Bushnell’s Belding Theater ...

Strengthening the ties between Skien, the hometown of the Norwegian playwright, poet, and theater director Henrik Ibsen, and ...

But he concludes that such stubbornness is “not all bad.” Perhaps keeping an open mind is overrated—at least if it means “coming to accept the unacceptable,” as Setiya puts it. And how should a person ...