Mary Vinson, the artist and author born without a name, didn't learn how to read or write until she was in her 50s.

The Juvenile Hall poetry program was looking for a way to share students’ work just as the county office of education was ...

"We all engage in small and large acts of translation every day," she said of her work as a Haitian-born writer in "a city of immigrants" and "a nation of immigrants." ...

Andrew Garfield, Percival Everett and Attica Locke are among the finalists for the 45th Los Angeles Times Book Prizes.

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In a 1930 letter, Robert Frost stated his priorities as memorably — which, for Frost, meant as mischievously — as possible: ...

Zionism 2.0 is currently elaborating plans to develop projects of breathtaking grandeur and technological majesty that will ...

Cox, University of Dayton Paul Laurence Dunbar was only 33 years old when he died in 1906. In his short yet prolific life, Dunbar used folk dialect to give voice and dignity to the experience of Black ...