A champion self-advertiser, maven of the brag and the humblebrag, Whitman announces in the first pages of Specimen ...

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The author’s latest poetry collection, “Smother” ($26, W.W. Norton) hit bookshop shelves recently, so we took the opportunity to hear more about her work. Responses have been edited for length and ...

The Vietnam War (which ended 50 years ago on April 30, 1975) era caused so many powerful feelings and substantive actions ...

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Paul Klee’s “Angelus Novus,” which inspired Walter Benjamin, Laurie Anderson and Wim Wenders, will go on show to commemorate ...

In his debut novel, Ocean Vuong took pains to be illegible, then blamed the reader for reading. In his new book, he is ...