I Asked Him What He Needed” is USC professor Ed Madden’s newest book. Fueled by 2025 stories about deportation, the work comments on law and U.S. history.

This week’s poem, Lucia Owen’s “Rainy Morning in the Horse Barn,” offers a tender, quiet interlude of communion among beings.

Leonard Cohen was a Canadian poet, novelist, and songwriter whose writing often explored love, longing, faith, and desire. Before becoming famous as a musician, he built his reputation through poetry ...

A retired steelworker has swapped shifts for storytelling and become a published children’s author. Sean Edwards, 55, from ...

In an acrostic of my name, J is for journalist. The association is linear. Straightforward, even. I have always been a writer and a storyteller — I simply embrace the identifier more easily now, ...

Godlike,” by the seminal punk musician Richard Hell, transposes a notorious affair between nineteenth-century French poets to nineteen-seventies New York.

Malaysian author and independent publisher Charissa Ong Tse Ying breaks into the U.S. market with her 2025 best-selling ...

When he moved into his East Village apartment in 1974, Richard Hell was 24 years old and playing bass in Television, the ...

Entries are now open for the Young Norfolk Writing Prize 2026, giving 10–18‑year‑olds across the county a chance to submit original writing in a format of their choice. Run by the National Centre for ...

A former team mate of the Scotland rugby legend Doddie Weir has put pen to paper to raise money for the late player’s charity.

If Edgar Allan Poe had designed a restaurant instead of writing about death and ravens, it might look something like the Annabel Lee Tavern in Baltimore. This gothic gem transforms the author’s most ...

THE mysterious phantom poet terrorising the Malaga town of Ronda has struck again, this time with the local mayor firmly in sights. Calling himself the ...