By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

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In my sophomore year at Brown, I wrote a 20-page proposal for an independent concentration that I never submitted. It was ...

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The interview with the translator of 'Firelets' highlights the challenges and motivations behind translating Bharati's poems.

There is a well-known story about Faiz being pulled out of a madrasah (Islamic school) because the children, who came from very poor backgrounds, ridiculed him. He arrived in neat clothes, in a ...

In cinemas today you can watch Timothée Chalamet impersonate Bob Dylan in the biopic A Complete Unknown. For Esquire, Mick Brown — one of the rare journalists to have interviewed the great man in ...

Ali Smith scrambles plotlines, upends characters, and flouts chronology—while telling propulsively readable stories.

It begins with a little-known fact. There was a time when there were not three paragraphs in the prayer we call the Shema, ...

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