By the 15th century, Arabic and later European historians interpreted Ibn al-Wardi’s story as a fact-based parable, with ...

Come See Me in the Good Light” follows the writer and their wife as they experienced the pain of cancer and also the joy of ...

The new documentary captures one of the last year's in spoken word poet Andrea Gibson's life, and their relationship with ...

Though almost all of Emily Dickinson’s famous poems, from the morbid “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” to the uplifting “‘Hope’ Is the Thing With Feathers,” were published after her death, she’s ...

In Death by Lightning, Guiteau is depicted singing and reciting a poem, "I Am Going to the Lordy," which is what actually ...

A new study reveals that modern ideas about the Black Death’s rapid spread across Asia stem from a centuries-old ...

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Though his younger friend John Henry Newman (1801–1890) moved in one direction, to Catholicism from Protestantism, Joseph Blanco White (1775–1841) moved in the other, drifting to Anglicanism and ...

Beauty stiffened, staring up at the sky! Oh, Autumn! Autumn! — What is the Spring to me? With “Poem of the Day,” The New York Sun offers a daily portion of verse selected by Joseph Bottum with the ...