The National Book Awards, hosted by the National Book Foundation, were established in 1950 and are among the most prestigious ...

The Athenian patrician Thucydides began writing the history of his city’s conflict with Sparta even as the war was beginning.

The Divine Comedy, the poet’s tour of the Christian afterlife, is filled with strikingly modern touches—and a poetic energy ...

The family of enslaved potter David Drake — known as “Dave the Potter” — has reclaimed two rare stoneware jars he created in ...

The 76th National Book Awards was a night of sobering speeches, soft acoustic performances and bookworms getting down on the ...

NEW YORK -- The 76th National Book Awards will unveil this year’s winners Wednesday night, with novels by Megha Majumdar and ...

READING, Pa. - World War II Weekend will begin Friday with a military parade through downtown Reading. The city and the Mid-Atlantic Air Museum are once again presenting the World War Two Weekend ...

When Plato was an infant, bees alighted on his lips and, nestling there, set about making honey. His parents had placed him, sleeping, on the summit of a mountain while they paid tribute to the gods, ...

Aspen resident poet Charlie Henderson celebrated a remarkable literary debut last week when her book, “Cowgirl Poetry,” was published on Oct. 15 and immediately soared to No. 1 within 24 hours. She ...

Last year, Joan Baez published her first-ever collection of poetry, When You See My Mother, Ask Her to Dance, expressing her thoughts on personal and family life and some of her music peers. But a few ...

The American poet Violet Ranney Lang was born in 1924 and died in 1956, of Hodgkin’s lymphoma, at the age of thirty-two. Although last year marked the centenary of her birth, the occasion passed ...

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