We asked ex-entrepreneur William Sieghart, who anthologized poems by writers from Rumi to JRR Tolkien in 'The Poetry Pharmacy ...
When the Canada Reads author of A Minor Chorus sits at his mother’s table, he feels connected to his family tree and everyone ...
Smith’s lyric memoir, Soundtrack (Book*hug, 212 pages, $25), is composed of narrative poems about coming of age as a gay man in the shadow of AIDS. The collection is structured around memories evoked ...
Struggling to choose one path may reflect cognitive flexibility, not indecision. Creative people often thrive by integrating ...
The ability to understand, recognize, and label your own emotions is a necessary part of living a fulfilling life.
In The Past Pursues Us Like Detectives, Debt Collectors, Thieves (And Other Stories, £14.99), Juan Pablo Villalobos turns the ...
George Eliot – the pen name of Victorian novelist Mary Ann Evans – is celebrated today as a writer of realist novels: Adam ...
Snowflake author Louise Nealon on a culture of misogyny, making therapy work and writing new novel following hit debut ...
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The Enigma of Gertrude Stein

Books & the Arts / Why do we misunderstand one of modernism’s great writers? David Schurman Wallace No one understands Gertrude Stein. For this, we should all give thanks. It is almost a cliché to ...
Drummond Hadley said he wasn’t a cowboy poet — he was a poet who was also a cowboy. Hadley, 77 and a longtime Southern Arizonan, died Nov. 26 at his mother’s family’s home in Cooperstown, New York.
Arundhati Roy, Han Kang and Karen Hao stand at the centre of this year’s National Book Critics Circle Awards, reflecting a ...
The music of US composer Jessie Montgomery has seen an uptick in performances from orchestras worldwide. She talks about her ...