Here are the 10 best books to read this month, including poignant fiction, a Hollywood satire, and a work by Nobel winner ...

I needed to stop thinking that I knew more than the author and give in to whatever ride they had spent years planning.

All hail National Poetry Month, in which we are allowed — encouraged, even — to revel in words laid one by one without the usual constraints of punctuation or the so-called rational sequencing of ...

Coming up: Local Author Visit “Holiday Hauntings” on the Dallas Patch calendar ...

I’ve been writing poetry for about as long as I can remember; in truth, I can’t even remember how long. My mother died of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 1996; my father died in 2005 from multiple urinary ...

The invention of close reading. By transforming quotations into evidence, close reading served as way to turn postwar criticism into a specialized knowledge. But what if we treated it more as an art ...

If you’re planning to give books as Christmas presents this year you’re spoiled for choice, writes Roger Cox ...

My freshman year of high school marked my formal introduction to poetry. It wasn’t a great first impression, as one might imagine happens when pushing Shakespeare on a bunch of 14-year-olds. It lulled ...

It doesn’t open up the tapestry of human experience — it reads like it was written by a shut-in with Wi-Fi and a thesaurus. Not sensory, not real, just … there. And as A.I. writing becomes more ...

Reading, while not technically medicine, is a fundamentally wholesome activity. It can prevent cognitive decline, improve sleep, and lower blood pressure. In one study, book readers outlived their ...