Beginning with her self-titled debut album in 2008, Taylor Swift has made allusions to literary themes and characters in many of her songs.

This filmmaking trio and Carey Mulligan discuss the emotional process of adapting a short film into a feature nearly two decades later.

Making his debut for the ECM label, soprano saxophonist Yuval Cohen brings a new and fresh style on “Winer Poems”, offering ...

As detailed on the Itch page, which includes a free version of the game, they're lifted from Brion Gysin's Permuted Poems and Robert Ashley's TV performance Perfect Lives: an opera, among other texts.

Manic Street Preachers may not be the enfants terribles they once were, but their new album still has some real bite, writes Fiona Shepherd ...

Based on a poem by James Weldon Johnson and set to music ... even though the lyrics don't address the state of race relations as explicitly as other songs that may be vying for that title.

It was suffocating to realise that the girl was not mere fiction; it was me, it was every other girl that grows up to be a woman. The aforementioned poem ... composes a lyrical ballad of ...

Until now, that has done nothing to undermine the enduring popularity of the ballad, which spent eight weeks at No 1 in the Billboard charts and remains a perennial if puzzling favourite at weddings.

Nashville native Mitchell Tenpenny, oozing with charisma and charm, then belted out his catchy country-rock ballads like there ... Like many of the other artists tonight, the fact thousands ...

Though less popular than its sibling on the other side of intermission, the Symphony No. 4 boasts writing of real wit and originality. Completed in 1806, four years after the Heiligenstadt Testament ...

By Karl Kirchwey Karl Kirchwey’s eighth book of poems, “Good Apothecary,” will be published this year. He teaches in the M.F.A. program in creative writing at Boston University, where he ...