Gwendolyn Brooks grew up in a South Side house full of books and was a poet from an early age, eventually becoming the first ...

Charles Baudelaire’s poems ... acutely germane today. But “Ballad of a Thin Man” goes far, far beyond this dark political moment. We used to live, for example, with the idea that, for ...

Four arts critics discuss ‘Sunrise on the Reaping,’ the latest installement in “The Hunger Games” universe by author Suzanne Collins.

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After a particularly fraught viewing of the 1973 folk-horror movie The Wicker Man, I developed a rather acute case of ...

In an age of divisive nationalism, the question of what it means to hail from Britain has become difficult to parse. A new ...

I remember Michael Jackson’s “Man in the Mirror” as a reflection of your whole being. For some, songs are a soul path, heard ...

The South Dakota Symphony Orchestra is making a fresh case for Douglas Moore’s “Giants in the Earth,” a Pulitzer ...

Cremona is also the title of one of Conan Doyle’s poems, which has nothing to do ... inspired Irish patriots such as Thomas Davis, whose ballad The Surprise at Cremona recounted the bravery ...