The Russian filmmaker discusses his biopic on the Russian poet, the nature of dissidents, and the heightened poetics of his ...

Aphasia New Zealand wants more people to be aware of the speech disorder which it says affects around 30,000 people across ...

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz says it is “shameful” that motorists are shouting the “R-word” driving by his home — and that he is “deeply concerned” the hate allegedly started by President Trump could “turn ...

Even the previously uncollected work in “The Poems of Seamus Heaney” shows a master craftsman in full control of his powers. Seamus Heaney’s ambition as an artist was balanced by a cool sense of ...

“What do you do for work?” is one of the most common small-talk questions in American life. As someone who’s spent years studying misinformation—and even wrote a book about it—I’ve had plenty of ...

Before anything else is said about him, know this: Sid Ghosh’s poetry goes toe to toe with some of contemporary poetry’s strongest writers. His first full-length poetry collection, Yellow Flower Gills ...

The White House has issued a cutting response to Joan Baez’s new poem speculating that a “little green worm” may have eaten its way through President Donald Trump’s brain. The singer-songwriter and ...

In 1940, St. Clair McKelway typed a memo to William Shawn, The New Yorker’s managing editor for fact. McKelway was writing a six-part Profile of Walter Winchell for the magazine, and he was unhappy ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. On “Sound Machine,” a track from the new album “Aloud” from poet Raymond Antrobus and percussionist Evelyn Glennie ...

There is a particular way Matthew McConaughey speaks when he is circling an idea he does not want to let go of. The sentences roll, stop, double back. A word, “belief,” becomes a refrain, a drumbeat.

Matthew McConaughey has always had a Texas-twang way with words - most famously with his signature "Dazed and Confused" line, "alright, alright, alright." Now the actor has turned his words a poetry ...

And when those white-sailed ships piled us together, cargo in the hull of hell, the word rode with us, our tongues anointed with the power of God. When the lash found our language, when they said ...