A new study in the Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies shows that a widely accepted belief about the Black Death’s rapid spread from Central Asia to the Mediterranean is not based on records or ...

Three new collections by mid-career poets lay claim to stories of identity, suffering and hope, to a kind of collective ...

As is widely known, fear has a way of “flattening” the imagination, and when the fear of punishment overshadows the desire to ...

Please join us for a special screening of Sudan, Remember Us. Sudan, Remember Us is a powerful portrait of a generation that chose poetry over silence and imagination over fear. Shajane, Maha, Muzamil ...

In this week’s poem, Peter Beckford takes us down a well and into an “upside-down” world. I love this poem’s tangible details of leaves, stones, and antlers; its otherworldly sense of shifting ...

Most importantly is the idea that the requirement of effort is what makes us human. If we didn’t exert effort — i.e., try — ...

A medieval Arabic poem written in 1348 helped construct one of the longest-standing misconceptions in plague history, shaping false views of its spread across Asia.

The Shubman Gill era is taking shape in Indian cricket. The 26-year-old has evidently been earmarked as the long-term leader of the Team India across formats, and is now the captain in both Tests and ...

Last week, I found myself browsing the poetry shelves of a public library, a good place to be in difficult and divided times. While there, I picked up and checked out three books. The first was a ...

I remember the first time I picked up Shel Silverstein’s Where the Sidewalk Ends in my elementary school library. It was filled with delightfully clever and funny rhymes, and the words danced off my ...