In making the poem into a ballet with original music, much has been gained, both for the significance of the new ballet and for a fresh appreciation and engagement with its source.

In his new book, British novelist David Mitchell affirms the irreducible and vivifying goods of the human soul.

Since the 1970s, Don DeLillo has been the wry and cool Jeremiah of American life. His new novel, 'Silence,' continues that tradition.

One of Susan Sontag’s strengths was that anything that could be said about her by others was said, first and best, by Susan Sontag

The stories of Machado de Assis let us imagine our way into familiar perspectives and situations from unexpected vantages that enlarge and transform our sense of what is and what can be in this life, and the next.

Life is short...but for Dara Horn's protagonist, it also happens over and over again forever.

Go, Went, Gone never becomes preachy or sentimental. Instead, it is quietly bracing

Rushdie is a writer keen to take on big, messy matters—and few are bigger or messier these days than American life at home and abroad.