I am more with you than I ever could have imagined,” Gibson says in the poem, written while facing a terminal illness.

Author Roseanna White shares her perspective, through the lens of historical events, on why we should exercise our freedom to read.

Welcome mats bearing the legend “difficult” and “allusive” are the ones often placed by critics at the door of T. S. Eliot’s ...

Kesey explores familial dynamics in this 1964 novel set in a fictional town on the Oregon Coast during a logging strike. His epic novel centers on two brothers, Hank and Lee Stamper, and their ...

Fire in Your Soul, perhaps ambitiously, promised to be ‘transformational’. Surprisingly, it wasn’t far off meeting its ambition. The weekend served as an immersive rest and recharge in nature, fuel to ...

From classics to modern masterpieces, these great poetry books—recommended by poets themselves—belong on your bookshelf.

Washington poet Eric Ode often finds ideas while out walking. Here he shares a poem inspired by the prickly (or not) holly ...

It seemed like a usual nursing home with usual patients However in that dull space somewhere there was a man who was beautifully scripting about his life during his last days in a form of hearttouchin ...

Accessing reading material in prisons is hard, but Freedom Reads co-founder Reginald Betts, a former inmate, went beyond ...

Madeline Miller spent over a decade writing The Song of Achilles – a fantasy romance retelling of Homer’s epic poem The Iliad – and it shows. Just as the title promises, the prose of this novel sings ...

"May want to talk to members of your own party Mr. Leader," wrote Newsom's press office account, adding a few quotes from Republican lawmakers: "Senator Tillis: Republicans are about to make a ...