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A word is dead When it is said, Some say, I say it just Begins to live That day. – Emily Dickinson If someone asked you how you felt and you said you had “a sense sublime of something far more deeply interfused, whose dwelling was the light of setting…

A concise study of Tennessee Williams, John Cheever, Carson McCullers and James Baldwin, and how their sexuality informed their work, veers between lecture-hall lit crit and novelistic immediacy

Vandalism has once again marred the ancient Indigenous pictographs nestled within Bon Echo Provincial Park about two hours west of Ottawa and north of Kingston, Ont.

Imagining the poet as a kind of musical instrument is a somewhat dotty thought, but here the conceit resonates with irresistible musicality

Speaking to CNN, an Edinburgh woman has told of her whirlwind romance that started seconds after she landed in New York for a work trip - and got a notification from the dating app Bumble.

One of Britain’s most cosmopolitan composers was celebrated with a forceful performance of the immense A Sea Symphony

Bob Dylan doesn't think much of the current state of songwriting or of contemporary pop music, two points underscored in his sometimes dizzying, sometimes confounding, but rarely less than absorbing new book, "The Philosophy of Modern Song." But he does think polygamist marriages are greatly underrated, about which more in…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — At a superficial glance, anyway, it’s easy to perceive Chiefs coach Andy Reid as bound to ritual and habit.

A lavender-tinted look at Bram Stoker and the seminal novel he wrote 125 years ago