Now they think about it through Theory,” laments a character in Michelle de Kretser’s “Theory & Practice.” But the complaint ...
"The Instant," a 1949 painting by surrealist artist Kay Sage, depicts a desolate landscape with architectural remains in the ...
The Gorge” is a serving of sci-fi-based action that, despite some star power, feels too small for the big screen but pretty large at home.
Visual artist and author Oliver Jeffers on how to see beauty in the world, trust yourself as a creative, and master the art of simplicity. In “The Mindset of Making,” Oliver Jeffers shared a ...
It is a collection of many different styles of writing - poetry, history ... Sometimes Jesus in the Gospel purposely taught in figurative language and parables, which makes literal interpretation ...
Poems can promote understanding by taking us behind enemy lines. Threatening to boycott anyone's art or literature will only ...
Haruki Murakami's latest novel, The City and Its Uncertain Walls, explores the shifting boundaries of identity, using surreal ...
Or triumphant. The poem’s most poignant feature may be the soldier’s optimism, his faith in what comes after hell. He insists ...
Opinion
Is poetry useless?
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts may have a better right than any other state to call itself “the poetry state.” Celebrated poets from Emily Dickinson and Ralph Waldo Emerson to Elizabeth Bishop and ...
In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, Foundry Fest, a “Not Dead Yet!” tribute to Tom Lehrer, gospel ...
The science-fiction thriller, also featuring Sigourney Weaver, is rather ordinary but is lifted by its performances ...
However, relatively little attention has been paid to another key aspect that affects replicability: language. Across fields, language plays a central role in all steps of the research cycle and ...