There are many bilingual Jewish books in which the two languages are dependent on each other. The Gemara is a mostly Aramaic reworking of the Hebrew-language Mishnah. The stories of Reb Nachman of ...

Poet Curt Curtin was well known in Worcester's poetry circles. His wife and collaborator, Dee O'Connor, talks about two ...

Poetry takes the pulse of the times. These times are dark: wars raging; a pandemic that, though it has ebbed, still has everyone confused and afraid; monstrous, hate-filled social media posts ...

One of the first rooms at the van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam houses a collection of his self-portraits and a timeline of his life. During van Gogh’s first two years in Paris, he painted 28 ...

What’s most remarkable about Carlos Lara’s Like Bismuth When I Enter is the palpable sense that the author is translating life into language. One could say that each poem in the collection dabbles in ...

Post written by Aneta Pavlenko. On January 15, 1605, a young Dutch woman, Brechje Spiegels, died suddenly, catching everyone by surprise. A few days earlier her beloved, poet Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft ...

Every year, since 2014, I’ve set aside a couple of months to sit down with what amounts to a long shelf of books of poetry published in the past twelve months. My goal is to take stock of the art.

Donegal-based Éabhlóid published more books in 2025 than ever before. The lively Cló Iar Chonacht brought out almost a dozen and the other major Irish language publishers, Leabhar Comhar, Leabhar ...

SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD Morio Hayashida stepped off the Japanese ship Shinyo Maru into San Pedro, California, in late 1921. Seven years later, while living in Los Angeles, he published a 220-page ...