The Texas Book Festival announced Tuesday that Naomi Shihab Nye, a Palestinian-American poet, editor, and educator, is the ...

Poems about life for nearly every situation P oetry doesn’t just reflect life—it makes life an object of art. Whatever state or mood you’re in, poems about life are there to guide you, to ease you and ...

Self’s new novel, about a woman struggling against her confined role in the 1950s, is based on his late mother’s journals.

The Nobel Prize in Literature has honoured predominantly Western writers since it was first awarded in 1901, but the Swedish ...