Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.

There’s a bloke in Ottawa right now quietly running the single greatest economic masterclass on the planet, and the funniest part is that he kinda owes the lucky break to Donald Trump.

On December 11, 2025, Arthur Sze delivered his inaugural reading as the twenty-fifth Poet Laureate of the United States. The following is an excerpt from Sze’s latest book, Transient Worlds: On Translating...

Like many of us, W. H. Auden was a huge Tolkien fan in his day. In 1954, the celebrated poet raved about The Fellowship of the Ring in The New York Times, writing “No fiction I have read in t…

Falling into the limerent habit Desire is a curious thing. Some desires are easily satisfied—they pass quickly after they are successfully gratified, and rarely intrude into our consciousness. A la…

American political fiction has always been fascinated by loud endings. Assassinations. Coups. Riots in the streets. Helicopters lifting off from rooftops. The drama of collapse tends to arrive with…

A prior abortion or miscarriage was not linked with an increased risk of developing pre- or postmenopausal breast cancer in a study published in Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica.

I’m speaking to you, freaky ecclesiastical femmes. If you left Mona Fastvold’s strange epic singing hymns at the top of your lungs, and spent last week shaking with anger at the Academy…

Poet Crisosto Apache discusses how their poetry collection Ghostword emerged in conversation with the works of Japanese writer Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

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As Mary Beard has put it, ‘How could you control and defend a vast empire, stretching from Spain to Syria, with a...

Anderson speaks with Stella Carlson, the witness who captured crucial video showing exactly what happened when Alex Pretti was shot and killed by DHS officers.

Introducing a special collection of poetry, published on the inauguration of Donald Trump.

Misinformation technology could be deployed at scale to disrupt 2028 US presidential election, AI researchers say

A review of Biljana D Obradović’s new poetry collection, “Called by Distances.”

Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…

The Pogues' Christmas classic owes its iconic name to the work of Irish-American writer J.P. Donleavy.

New South Wales Premier Chris Minns on Sunday praised the man's actions, calling it "the most unbelievable scene."

Some warn proposal will decimate US tourism industry as free speech advocates say it will lead to people self-censoring

Because we all deserve a little escape.

The Surrealists saw colonialism and imperialism as intrinsic to fascism, and from start to finish they campaigned...

Arts and cultural experiences had more attendance than Rockies, Broncos, Nuggets, Avalanche and Rapids games combined.