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"Before a person dies, you talk to them. They die, and you still want to talk to them."

It’s usually too soon to write off what might seem, at first glance, a great artist’s less compelling work, as these small paintings would make abundantly clear if nothing else did. For more than a hundred years, Giorgio de Chirico has been revered for the so-called metaphysical paintings he made before, during, and right after the first World War. Then, in 1919 according to John Ashbery, de Chirico’s painterly genius “evaporated”…

Jack Spicer and John Wieners both wrote about their homosexuality – and in 50s America, that made them a threat. Forgotten for decades, finally their strange, anguished work has been unearthed

Thompson wanted to author a world where the struggle between chaos and order, structure and impulse, the rational and irrational is never settled.

The 92NY Unterberg Poetry Center's Spring literary season continues in May and June with readings by acclaimed authors Isabel Allende, Lorrie Moore and Miriam Toews, poet Willie Perdomo – and a dramatic reading of Seamus Heaney's work by actor Ben Whishaw, among other events.

John Tranter’s poetry was defined by his relentless desire to experiment.

If It Gets Quiet Later On, I Will Make a Display, the wonderfully odd new collection from Fredericton writer, editor, and poet Nick Thran, is ostensibly rooted in the world of bookstores and booksellers, but it refuses to be limited by those parameters. The book comes to

Leading up to the 2023 Met Gala, themed 'Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty,' here's what designers and world leaders had to say about him.

An editor recommends old and new books.

An editor recommends old and new books.