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Among the many dramatic episodes in the brief life of the poet Nakahara Chūya, the most infamous involves a love triangle between the poet, an aspiring actress called Hasegawa Yasuko, and the critic ...

Musicians Janis Ian in 1981, from left, Bob Dylan in 1963, and Leonard Cohen in 2009. (Photos by Eddie Mallin/CC BY SA 2.0; Rowland Scherman/NARA; AP Photo/Chris Pizzello) (RNS) — “To write a poem ...

The Sultan of Oman's son is moving forward with his royal wedding regardless of the Pope's passing, and the bride remains a ...

What does it mean to say ‘never again’? It is etched into memorials, inscribed in textbooks, whispered in the shadows of ...

Joann Deiudicibus, writing and rhetoric program assistant and adjunct lecturer in the English Department, stood to read from ...

New York pianist Jeanne Golan has been recording and performing the works of composers persecuted by the Nazis as part of ...

Seven people were killed and nearly 50 more were wounded on July 4, 2022, when police said Robert Crimo III opened fire on a ...

Prosecutors allege that, following a night of drinking, Karen Read struck her boyfriend -- Boston police officer John O'Keefe -- with her Lexus SUV and left him to die.

Robert Crimo III, who pleaded guilty to 21 counts of first-degree murder and 48 counts of attempted murder in connection to a ...

Crimo opened fire at an Independence Day parade that wounded nearly 50 more people in addition to the seven deaths.

The story is, of course, a familiar one; yet in her new book, Hallie Rubenhold makes it exciting all the same, said Dominic ...