Alice Oswald withdrew from the shortlist of the TS Eliot Prize for Poetry because of a new sponsor, Aurum. Aurum is "a hedge fund investment specialist" — not a poet’s poet, but a hedge fund ...

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, Foundry Fest, a “Not Dead Yet!” tribute to Tom Lehrer, gospel ...

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Alice Marie Johnson was serving a life sentence for a nonviolent drug conviction when the president commuted her sentence in 2018. Since then, she has become a criminal justice reform activist. By ...

This film tells the story of the college players who defeated the 1992 U.S. men’s basketball team, filled with N.B.A. All-Stars, during a scrimmage before the Olympics. By Alissa Wilkinson This ...

“She was the kind of poet who always responded to the moment,” the writer Edwidge Danticat, who also was born in Haiti, said in an interview. Danticat recalled that at one point while writing ...