Art can help us make sense of the world, and these moving poems about life offer a better understanding of the ups and downs ...

On the first bead of each decade is said the Our Father, on the second the Hail Mary, and on the third the Glory be to the Father. At the end of this sequence, the following poem-prayer is recited ...

Like so many famous songs of yore, "The Star-Spangled Banner" started as a poem, called “The Defence ... of the morning’s first beam, In full glory reflected now shines in the stream ...

you would not tell with such high zestTo children ardent for some desperate glory,The old Lie: Dulce et decorum estPro patria mori.” The poem ends with Owen’s sarcastic condemnation of ...

From classic epics like 'Gone With the Wind' to recent psychological thrillers like 'The Beguiled', here are the 20 best ...

A work of biography, an essay on literature and memory and the South, a prose poem full of lyrical dexterity ... or even the “cracked shell on an old turtle.” The worst, however, was still ...

A loss on Sunday would put the Dallas Cowboys at 2-1, and history shows that record does not generally end well for them.

PJ brought her new album 'I Inside the Old Year Dying' to life at her first proper NYC show in seven years, and played a ...

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

For years, Jason Rohrer put out bizarre, beloved video games. Now, with Project Skydrop, he launches (yes, today) the ...

It was a series of begats (Elvis begat the Beatles, the Beatles begat Jann Wenner, etc.) involving identity-famished ...

As Italians searched for ways to belong in Detroit, they erected a monument to Dante Alighieri — who still has lessons to ...