as Frost, who had every reason to veil his sexual velleities for his friend’s wife when he wrote about them in public, would ...

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Charles Baudelaire is our most religious 19th-century poet. It’s just that his poetry does religion in the mode of anti-religion.

When Julianna Glasse saw the call from her pastor, she hesitated. It was the fourth time he'd been in contact in a month, so ...

There is a whole lot of Kashmir in Yawar Abdal. If you hear him sing, you may feel the flow of the soothing valley winds in ...

As the world marks Women's History Month, Emily Abrams Ansari feels it's a fitting time to bring attention to women who've made significant-and ...

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While Kristen Stewarts turns ‘The Chronology of Water’ into a movie, its author revisits her past in a new memoir, ‘Reading ...

Yiddish, the historic language of Jews in Europe, was once spoken by tens of thousands of Jews in Los Angeles before largely ...