The newest of technologies defeated by one of the oldest human arts: poetry. This is what a group of Italian researchers and ...

A paper on arXiv by researchers at the Icaro Lab in Italy has set off a firestorm of headlines. It begins with a reference to a founding text of Western philoso ...

Mark Helprin’s stories' and novels' surfaces glitter and shimmer and shine with snow and ice. Perhaps no living writer, in ...

The man arrested in a string of burglaries that targeted women in the Haiku community is now facing federal drug charges. Maui police previously said the suspect, identified as German Zboron, 36, ...

A couple of years ago, Sunil Sarath Perera published a collection of essays titled ‘Mathaka Nimnaya,’ or ‘The valley of ...

Writing does not take us away from the difficult and the painful. If we write with courage and with integrity, it can take us ...

Here are the year’s most notable collections of verse as chosen by our poetry columnist. Credit...Photo illustration by Sebastian Mast Supported by By Elisa Gabbert Elisa Gabbert’s collections of ...

With new translations from the long-extinct Hittite language, UChicago Ph.D. student Naomi Harris brought verses from clay ...

The true pleasure of literature can be found in demanding works such as Your Name Here, by Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff.

We are in this period – the days immediately following Christmas – December 25. The intense religious and festive two days ...

Rare recordings of E.E. Cummings, Mary Oliver and more offer a tour through literary history led by authors in their own ...