The celebrated South African writer and poet Breyten Breytenbach has died at 85 He used his art to fight for justice for ...

Ian Felice, singer-songwriter of the Felice Brothers Band, paints folkloric paintings. His new works are on view at Half ...

They stood for opposite ways of thinking about the art of poetry—how to write it, how to read it ... At a time when television and advertising were making words smooth and empty, she argued that poets ...

Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review.

Analysis - Breyten Breytenbach (1939-2024) was an artist, poet, thinker and outspoken political activist who changed the literary landscape in South Africa. He died on 24 November in Paris, where he ...

The novels and nonfiction we couldn’t stop thinking about this year—and in a year like this one, that’s saying something.

Bowering, along with his partner Jean Baird and Katherine Kallsbeek, head of rare books and special collections at the UBC ...

Not that trauma is primarily a creative resource; it's mostly a fire to walk through, a storm to survive. What we make of it- ...

Lots of people--in my experience, mostly men--are fond of Henley's poem, which has a defiant tone. You probably know it even if you think you don't, it's the one that ends: I am the master of my fate, ...