After the Texans' playoff loss to the Patriots, Azeez Al-Shaair talked passionately about why he feels so strongly about his ...

My job is to help them move beyond their assumptions, in literature and everything else.

The author gives his first interview ahead of the Sundance premiere of Alex Gibney’s intimate doc, which reframes his story ...

Rap isn’t just entertainment. It’s applied writing. Every strong verse uses voice, structure, evidence, and emotional control ...

SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE has been a hit on Netflix in recently. The movie, which won the Best Animated Feature Award ...

Marking his birth anniversary, here is remembering Kaifi Azmi, who carried his care for the nation he had placed his hopes in ...

But it’s the scene that changes the story. In the film American Beauty (1999), the moment Lester Burnham quits his job, walks out of his cubicle with a beer in hand—that’s it. That’s his turning point ...

In a recently unearthed interview from 1992, Eric Clapton revealed that writing 'Tears In Heaven' helped him grieve the ...

In her new middle grade novel in verse, 'A Year Without Home,' V.T. Bidania tells the story of her Hmong family's escape from ...

Fiction: V.T. Bidania’s “A Year Without Home” was inspired by her family’s flight after the Vietnam War. V. T. Bidania ...

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.’ This quote from TS Eliot has become a critical commonplace. And if we’re to take ...

Sonawane says, poetry unlike prose, is a durable vessel for truth. “A novel has a relatively short life,” he says with the calm certainty of someone who has measured time in decades of public service.