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On the first page of her deeply perceptive and passionately argued study of Rainer Maria Rilke, mainly as a poet but also as a personality, Lesley...

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Since I was a child, I’ve been captivated by stories of the paranormal. Growing up in an environment rife with real-world terrors, I commiserated with the...

Fatimah Asghar’s debut novel, When We Were Sisters, braids lyric and and narrative vignettes into a tender, vivid, heart-aching story of three orphaned sisters and the...

Superheroes have been around a long time, and most of the characters and genre conventions are pretty well established. But did every character always look and...

Celtic mythology has been a source of inspiration for writers, artists, and historians for centuries. The tales of King Arthur and his knights are perhaps the...

Many years ago as a teen, I heard a quote that really resonated with me: “The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that...

The only recipe I’ve ever known by heart is my mother’s recipe for breaded chicken cutlets with special sauce. This is how it goes: I crack...

This is the sort of list that’s basically impossible to make because: where do we start? The world of contemporary poetry is truly blessed when it...