Category: Poetry and Poets

  • Read Your Way Through Boston

    The New York Times – Travel:

    Paul Theroux, the quintessential travel writer, has also enshrined his Massachusetts roots in his writing. Here are his recommendations for those who come to visit.

  • Turning Trash Into Poetry

    The New York Times – Fashion & Style:

    Ser Serpas, a young artist known for kinetic arrangements of discarded furniture, opens up about her expressive way of processing the used world.

  • Read Your Way Through Tokyo

    The New York Times – Travel:

    Hiromi Kawakami, one of Japan’s most popular contemporary novelists, travels with books that help her immerse herself in her destination. Here, she suggests reading for those coming to her hometown, Tokyo.

  • ‘Die Hard’ Comes to the Christmas Stage in London

    The New York Times – Movies:

    The poet Richard Marsh is winning praise in London for a one-man theatrical version of the action movie.

  • Retracing Walt Whitman’s Steps Through Brooklyn and Manhattan

    The New York Times – T Magazine:

    The poet wandered for himself and for his various day jobs with New York City newspapers. Some of his haunts are still standing; most have been swept away with time.

  • Read Your Way Through Dublin

    The New York Times – Travel:

    Virtuosity and creativity with language are “everyone’s birthright” in the Irish capital, says Tana French, an award-winning mystery writer who has made it her home.

  • Emily Dickinson, at Home in Her ‘Full-Color Life’

    The New York Times – Travel:

    The poet’s house museum in Amherst, Mass., gets a vibrant, historically correct makeover, underlining that she was not just a reclusive woman in white.

  • Emily Dickinson, at Home in Her ‘Full-Color Life’

    The New York Times – Travel:

    The poet’s house museum in Amherst, Mass., gets a vibrant, historically correct makeover, underlining that she was not just a reclusive woman in white.

  • Read Your Way Through Istanbul

    The New York Times – Travel:

    Istanbul is unfathomable: old and new, real and surreal, melancholic and absurd. Elif Shafak, one of its foremost novelists, reveals its secrets.

  • Celtics Shake Off N.B.A. Finals Loss With Season-Opening Win

    The New York Times – Sports:

    A tough loss to Golden State ended Boston’s championship hopes last season. The lessons from that series are already showing.

  • Books About London That Take You Through the City

    The New York Times – Travel:

    Bernardine Evaristo, whose “Girl, Woman, Other” won the Booker Prize, invites readers into London, a city whose rich literary landscape is “for everyone, not just the privileged few.”