Valentine's cards and gifts have their roots in English traditions — but Americans have long embraced them for romantic partners and other loved ones.

I have met so many good people of Petersburg, and I love the great possibilities that the city has on the horizon' ...

The novelist’s debut memoir, Children of Radium (Scribner, Apr.), details how his great-grandfather, a Jewish chemist, ended up making weapons for the Nazis.

Paige Russell has always been enamored with textiles. Growing up in Detroit, the Los Angeles–based founder of Eloi (ee-loy) ...

Everett pulls off a masterly linguistic confection, in which enslaved people use Black English only as a wary affectation.

The words of fisher poet Steve Schoonmaker, when put to the sounds of Jim Maloney’s music, create a sense of wonder about the intelligence and inclusiveness of nature.

According to one legend, Pope Gelasius wanted to put an end to the debauchery in the late fifth century. He declared Feb. 14 ...

Poets Matt Starr, Aria Aber, and Alex Dimitrov share their tips for writing a love letter (or DM) to your crush, including ...

Langston Hughes is known as the people’s poet. I would say Biggers is the people’s painter. The man and the work are one.” ...

New research has found that people are unable to determine whether a poem was written by a human or generated by AI. Despite ...