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How the filmmakers behind 'A Complete Unknown' embraced the grit of the New York streets.

Ted Kooser, who has battled cancer off and on for the past 25 years, acknowledges the shadows that lurk amid life’s delights.

Ancient, repurposed parchments reveal hidden and forgotten traces of Iceland’s history. Iceland has a long and rich literary ...

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The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “I have slept in many places, for years on mattresses that entered,” by Diane Seuss, and his own poem “This Is a Test of the Federal Emergency ...

Stuck in her home, envisioning a fantasy of togetherness, her cover of “White Christmas” is imbued with a subtly sad sort of yearning. Jones reinterprets the track with a nu-jazz spin ...

with a cover of ‘O Holy Night’. The track is nominated for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance at the Grammys 2025. The two artists are also competing for Album Of The Year, Record Of The Year ...

queerness and colonialism while keeping personal lived experiences close to the page. Scientific Marvel won the 2024 Governor General's Literary Award for poetry. The Poetry of Why: poet ...