One way to think of poems is as the stories of a moment. All art, at its root, is a way of telling stories. Even paintings — ...

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In the Italian city where James Joyce wrote 'Ulysses,' the bookstore that Jewish poet Umberto Saba opened in 1919 has come ...

Art is for making games’, he writes, ‘that’s the message for today’. But even among his admirers it feels as if there’s a lingering misconception about Raworth: that because his work is funny, ...

Washington Ensemble Theatre founders are revisiting the viscerally poetic, emotionally vicious play that put the company on ...

On Bob Dylan.

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Ali Smith scrambles plotlines, upends characters, and flouts chronology—while telling propulsively readable stories.

“You wanna play something?” he asks, gesturing to the aux. I accept the offer and hook it up to my phone, selecting Norman Fucking Rockwell by Lana Del Rey the way I do every time someone asks me to ...