Heather Lende, Alaska's previous Writer Laureate, shares a poem read on a cold, dark night during a dinner with friends.

Last Sunday’s Island newspaper had my article titled Reading and the Classics. I continue that trend of thought and mention women authors who we of my generation read with such delight. Maybe I need ...

January 6 insurrectionists, including over 600 violent criminals who attacked, murdered Capitol police officers, pardoned by Trump by Vijaya Chandrasoma The inauguration of the 47th President of the ...

Phillis Wheatley came to America on a slave ship, but soon became its first African-American poet with knowledge of Latin ans ...

Despite more women becoming involved in Burns clubs in recent years, the top table at Burns suppers still tends to be ...

Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city, makes no pretences about a robust arts and culture tradition, as vivacious as in good old Lagos. The National Theatre in Iganmu; the Musical Society of Nigeria’s (MUSON) ...

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On 10 April 1925, the day The Great Gatsby was published, F Scott Fitzgerald wrote to Max Perkins, his editor, asking that ...

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The Ugly Stepsister takes viewers to an enchanted kingdom in which impossible standards of female beauty lead to graphic ...