Category: Poetry and Poets

‘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.”