The U.S. Education Department last week said it was investigating dozens of universities for alleged racial discrimination, ...

A posthumous memoir by Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, Hisham Matar’s novel “My Friends” and a poetry collection by Anne Carson were among the winners Thursday ...

The lifelong McLean County resident wrote a collection of poems over the course of a year, detailing the beauty and nuance of ...

Ken Waldman has toured North America as Alaska’s Fiddling Poet, combining Appalachian-style string-band music with “smart” ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks with John Himmelman about his new collection of illustrated poems for children, "The Boy Who Lived in ...

After packed-to-the-brim days in Philadelphia and New York City, the final stop of our East Coast train trip was here. Ashley ...

Kun and his brother Istvan survived Auschwitz in part due to the fact that Dr. Mengele believed them to be twins and thus ...

Since October, on the second Sunday of every month, Victoria Hood and Z Lavway have co-organized a lineup of local writers and authors to share their work. The pair wanted to open up the experience to ...

Digital art by a Japanese trans artist at FKM Gallery; art and poetry exploring the immigrant experience at Indigenous Roots, and a celebration of composers of color at MacPhail.

A twin pregnancy is when there are two fetuses in the uterus at the same time. Twins can be identical, meaning they developed when a single fertilized egg split early in development, or fraternal, ...

She describes the experience as one of “utter helplessness.” In an effort to reignite her creativity, she turned to poetry, hoping it would bring back her words. She re-read novels she loved ...

The International Literacy Association (ILA) is a professional organization with a mission of connecting research and practice to continuously improve the quality of literacy instruction across the ...