To borrow a current idiom, Edgar Allan ... Poe’s example not cautionary but inspirational. Through all his binges and ...

In the annals of American literary culture, few have left as bold a mark as Edgar Allan Poe. In 1841, with the locked-room mystery “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” Poe invented the genre of ...

A new exhibition promises to change the way we see the late work of Edgar Degas. On view through ... Degas produced some of his most powerful art in his later years. Degas himself promoted the ...

Yet it was not always so. The roots of modern detective fiction go back over 150 years to a Boston-born master of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe. And the most shocking true-crime story in Poe's day ...