Writing is much like a high ropes course, Weston Morrow said. It’s about overcoming fear — fear of the blank page, of being ...

"It's just having the courage to be vulnerable. It's also a revelatory process of writing. It’s self-revealing to a degree." ...

His postmortem portraits, nearly 30 of which are reproduced in “The Harlem Book of the Dead,” are artistic assemblages that ...

Leaving the basement isn't for everyone - especially during these troubled times. And yet, venturing out into the world can ...

For centuries, poets have turned to autumn as a mirror for the human condition, a season oscillating between abundance and ...

M urder in the C athedral, a play by T. S. Eliot. Mr. Eliot, with much bitterness for a believer, dissects martyrdom in general and the death of Thomas a Becket in particular. A liturgical tone tends ...

On the cover there’s a painting of the annunciaton by Fra Bartolomeo and Mariotto Albertinelli, and in virtually every ...

The last poem Seamus Heaney completed appears towards the end of this magisterial book. It was commissioned by the National Gallery to celebrate its 150th anniversary. The final draft of the poem was ...

It is more than a decade since Seamus Heaney’s death in 2013, yet his presence in Irish and world letters feels scarcely diminished. The publication of The Poems of Seamus Heaney, edited by Rosie ...

The topic of Malaysians on Singapore’s death row has been in the news lately with the execution of K Datchinamurthy on Thursday. It was both harrowing and timely, therefore, when Death Row Literature: ...

the light fell from the window, as though a brush had drawn away white paint from a body. It was not a beheading, it was not righteous. It was not over a debt or over a hole in the earth. It was ...