The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on the curation of a book collection.

Settling on the window seat, I switched on a light and saw that I was holding a book of love poems from Elizabeth Barrett ...

One of the great New Orleans-produced poets, Nicole Cooley is a master of the narratively themed collection. “The Afflicted Girls,” her 2004 volume about the Salem Witch Trials, is an unsung gem of a ...

A new year always brings some uncertainty, and that seems particularly true at the start of 2025. As America grapples with a new (yet familiar) political era, and the larger world faces challenges ...

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The book also celebrates the successes of Indigenous peoples and looks into the realities they face. The poems in The Work explore the themes of loss and grief and how one can make themselves ...

Can’t wait for the movie. I started small with Mother Goose, worked my way to Dr. Seuss. My teacher said, ‘Hey, read a real book.’ Hemingway was all it took. His style, is terse but you end ...

A good book is escapist ... Why I liked it: This was Leilani’s debut in 2020, and I can confidently say I will read anything she writes. The writing in “Luster” is poetic and complex ...

Picking the right books ... perfect to read by the fire while the days grow imperceptibly longer. Flight, by Lynn Steger Strong Family members are frequently the only people who can really fathom ...

Joyce Kilmer famously wrote, “I think that I shall never see/A poem lovely as a tree.” Well, south Minneapolis has a tree ...