Despite the heartbreak from the return of the slain hostages, we should not confuse tears for weakness or bowed heads for a ...

The poet Maya Angelou remains beloved more than a decade after her death. Yet few lift up the power of her voice in the ...

Sassoon and Owen capture in verse the sheer frightfulness of trench warfare; they are the supreme English war poets of their ...

Director Matthew Rankin ’s odyssey through a Winnipeg dotted with homages to Iranian film history — and featuring the coziest ...

The 45th annual awards will recognize outstanding literary achievements in 13 categories, with winners to be announced on ...

February, and the events of this year so far have not inspired much optimism. Diversity, equity and inclusion programs are being slashed, hundreds of people have lost their homes to fires and members ...

A lustrous scion of fin-de-siècle Vienna, she was born Alma Maria Schindler, the daughter of the operetta singer Anna Bergen ...

Ledisi, who is a Grammy Award-winning singer cum songwriter, delivered her rendition of Lift Every Voice and Sing at the Super Bowl today, sparking a frenzy on social media.

Maya Angelou reads a poem during the inauguration of Bill Clinton ... after all. But it is also emblematic of the critical impulse to turn certain writers—especially writers of color—into ...

Andrew Garfield, Percival Everett and Attica Locke are among the finalists for the 45th Los Angeles Times Book Prizes.