Since I was a little girl and my mother gave me a Khalil Gibran journal to help me cope with the loss of my grandmother, I have always used writing as a way of healing.
Regina Weinreich | Posted 05.02.2012
Barney Rosset died last week at age 89, and for those who valued his contribution to upholding First Amendment rights in this country, his championing the works of artists, the event truly marks the end of an era.
Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 10.24.2011
"Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new li...
flavorwire.com | Posted 10.01.2011
Macy Halford recently wrote in the New Yorker‘s Book Bench that she happened upon the “hipster lit” section of Bookhampton while browsing in its...
The Observer | Kate Kellaway | Posted 08.31.2011
In a boat, in the nude, with cold chicken, warm bananas, Mr Knightley or Mole…...
flavorwire.com | Posted 05.25.2011
It just so happens that a little birdie (the Internet) told us that the 2011 International Translation of the Bible is now gender-neutral! According t...
John Lundberg | Posted 11.17.2011
Today officially marks the start of spring, the season long seized on by poets to symbolize rebirth and awakening. Here are three celebratory, though still complex, poems about spring.
Telegraph | Michael Deacon | Posted 05.25.2011
A biography of the poet Edith Sitwell, published this week, shows what a roaring snob she could be. It seems that she looked down her (startlingly lar...
John Lundberg | Posted 11.17.2011
If you're still searching for the right words to use on Valentine's Day, and want to be a little more creative than, "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways."
Tamsin Smith | Posted 05.25.2011
'Twas the night before Christmas and all through my mind, strolled ghosts of the old year, visions of new times... PAUSE PLEASE FOR A PROGRAMING UPD...
Posted 05.25.2011
Subways, airports, buses--we keep an eagle eye out and the moment we hear a page turn, our ears perk up. We're on the lookout for what people are rea...
Sam Wasson | Posted 05.25.2011
If you want to see slow motion bees, or a woman's hand brushing through a sward of wheat, then I Am Love is the film for you. But not for me.
Carol Muske-Dukes | Posted 11.17.2011
The catalogue for the haunting "Other as Animal" show at Danese Gallery in New York City (which runs from June 4 through August 6th ) -- offers a quot...
Eliezer Sobel | Posted 11.17.2011
Thankfully, my personal life is not completely dictated by media-based psychology standards, or I'd wind up on Oprah taking the fall for men in mid-life crisis everywhere.
Lisa Guest | Posted 11.17.2011
I'm breaking the rule on January fifth, 2010. It's 11:42 PM. I should already be asleep. I should have been quiet and reflecting at 10:30 so that by 11:00 my head was still and my body could repair itself.
BBC News | Posted 05.25.2011
Analyses of classic authors' works provide a way to "linguistically fingerprint" them, researchers say. The relationship between the number of words ...
Diana M. Raab | Posted 04.12.2012