In his debut novel, Ocean Vuong took pains to be illegible, then blamed the reader for reading. In his new book, he is ...

Spoken-word poets in Cameroon are using their art form to help communities cope with traumas left by the ongoing civil war.

For nearly 200 years, only a select few people had read the contents of a tiny collection of poems written by an author who ...

At the Clark on Saturday, May 3, Compagnia de’ Colombari will screen seven short films, as part of the nationwide "Whitman on ...

Read With Jenna usually has a solid track record for picking good thrillers, but for many readers, this novel failed to ...

In his latest book, cartoonist Harry Bliss confronts the most serious topics — a chaotic and at times abusive childhood, the ...

Every Wednesday night, the Boston Poetry Slam takes over Cantab’s basement for its flagship event: a show entirely devoted to ...

Andrew Porter discusses his latest novel on the latest episode of Book Public. April 11, 2025 • For author Lauren K. Watel, “potions” are part poem and part fiction. There are 75 prose-like ...

Short Wave – a great science podcast from NPR with short episodes on really interesting weekly science news. Gen Z Media ...

In her poems, short stories and surgical knife-sharp reviews for magazines ... Reading these very different, very funny books boosted my spirits and lowered my tight shoulders.

The book begins in late December 1999 and ends in early January 2002, with a small, sad postscript taken from Didion’s computer, recounting a session she and Quintana had with the latter’s own ...