Few would guess that poet Sylvia Plath traveled through the Mojave Desert one summer and was inspired to write “Sleep in the ...

Ogden Nash regularly contributed verse to The New Yorker for more than forty years. His last poem in the magazine was published the week after his death, in 1971. Sharing casual moments from our ...

O divine Jesus, incarnate Son of god, for our salvation you consented to be born in a stable, to spend you whole life amid poverty, trials, and misery, and to die surrounded by sufferings on the ...