These days, Alissa Quart’s attention has broken into strange shapes. But she has found a reprieve in one thing: poetry.

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A recent invitation to speak on the life and legacy of Timothy Thomas Fortune was the perfect opportunity for my column.

Victor Hugo was a prolific artist as well as a towering author and poet, but his strange work is more interesting and ...

Yusef Salaam, one of the Central Park Five, spoke at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History about his ...

In her new novel, “Counting Backwards,” a collage artist struggles with the declining health and hallucinations of her ...

“The ferocious parts of the Psalms,” Lewis writes, “serve as a reminder that there is in the world such a thing as wickedness ...

National Book Award-winning novel, 'James,' Percival Everett grapples with philosophical and metaphysical questions as well ...

Does history repeat itself? Or does it rhyme? WBUR literature writer Katherine Ouellette recommends eight books that remind ...

Vincenzo Latronico’s slender volume captures a culture of exquisite taste, tender sensitivities, and gnawing discontent.

There are moments in the history of human thought when a simple realization transforms our understanding of reality. A moment ...