September would have been Leonard Cohen’s 90th birthday. So a biographical tome from a French university lecturer, who has ...

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At director Werner Herzog's so-called "film school for rogues," he shows students how to forge a shooting permit. With more ...

Werner Herzog had never even seen a movie until he was 11. Now 82, the visionary director is working constantly, still making ...

A poem about the Spanish Civil War, it can be seen as a parallel ... and the poppy-petalled metaphysics?/ and the rain repeatedly spattering/ its words and drilling them full/ apertures and ...

Former Tate Modern director Vicente Todolí founded Todolí Citrus Fundació to preserve rare citrus varieties and compile a ...

There are hidden family stories, and tales of love and loss both real and imagined in this month's best books, as recommended ...

The Lyric Opera of Chicago just announced its 2025-26 season, including two new shows by Chicago pioneers: Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan and Chicago Poet Laureate avery r. young.

In the military, also, as late as the 1970s, our routine was best expressed in Randall Jarrell’s poem “Mail Call,” which ends ... “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these ...

Instead, the scene—in which a Palestinian brother and sister inch forward in their car toward a flying checkpoint in torrential rain—comes ... s haunting poems about the killings of civilians under ...

In a state filled with seafood restaurants, Star Fish Company stands apart – not because it tries to be different, but because it stays true to what matters: fresh seafood, simply prepared, served in ...

Have you ever had that feeling where your shoulders suddenly drop two inches the moment you arrive somewhere? That inexplicable sense that your body just decided, "Ah, yes, THIS is where we're ...