And neither the president nor his Cabinet has made a case for war to the American people. Perhaps they should try making that ...

Lubrin, the author of Code Noir, which won the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, and The Dyzgraphxst, which won the 2021 Griffin Poetry Prize, pays tribute to her mother in her latest book, The World ...

Ancient Greek athletes fought in brutal contests of the ancient Olympics, where sacred honor and civic pride shaped modern ...

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

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

Today (11 November) marks Remembrance Day, also known as Armistice Day, which means a chance to stop and think about those ...

Nowell Oxland died in World War One before he could see his poems published [Provost and Fellows of Worcester College, Oxford] Two women have saved a war poet's work from being lost - twice over and ...

Two women have saved a war poet's work from being lost - twice over and more than 100 years apart. Only 24, Nowell Oxland died in World War One in 1915, nine days before one of his poems, about his ...

Lake holds his eastern American toad in the hand that has “TOAD” tattooed on his fingers. Lake holds his book of poetry, “A Toad in a Glass Jar” Stan Lake, an Iraq War Veteran, poses in Mill Creek for ...

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The killing of seven Palestinian journalists and media workers in Gaza on August 10 and five more on August 25 has prompted verbal condemnations, yet has inspired little to no substantive action. This ...