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Poet Mary Jo Bang has spent the last two decades translating the three books of Dante's Divine Comedy. Purgatorio is the ...

Honored for her poetry and her fiction, Ms. Howe "was truly one of the great poets of Boston and Cambridge," said poet and ...

Black Sparrow Press, a shoestring operation he ran out of his home, became one of the highest-profile small publishers in the U.S., championing writers like Charles Bukowski.

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Palliative care professional Suzanne O’Brien shares how a “good death” is not only possible — it’s what people and their caregivers should plan for.

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The actor was found dead at his Malibu home on Thursday, July 3 by Los Angeles police, with heart disease and alcoholism ...

I'm a longtime admirer of Maria Popova. Her essays have moved and startled me more than once, and I’ve underlined her ...