Designed by Microsoft and Kyoto University, the programs write poems inspired by images and human descriptions.

Exact location of the poet’s coffin had been forgotten until recent excavation uncovered the vault

David S. Reynolds reviews "The Afterlives of Specimens: Science, Mourning, and Whitman’s Civil War" by Lindsay Tuggle and "Drum-Taps: The Complete 1865 Edition" by Walt Whitman, edited by Lawrence Kramer.

ICE at Dartmouth

Nina Simone

In 1909, two London bookbinders were commissioned to create a book that would become one of the most bedazzling the world had beheld. Joobin Bekhrad reveals how it ended up at the bottom of the Atlantic – and how it still influences today.

The left-wing poet died in 1973, weeks after a military coup led by general Augusto Pinochet.

Mr. Wilbur’s poems were praised for their beauty but were criticized for their “mildness.” He was named the nation’s second poet laureate.

A 19th-century philosopher’s nervous breakdown can teach us something about finding peace in a world in crisis. By Adam Etinson.

Revisiting the work of A. E. Housman. By Adam Kirsch.

Recently, I spent a few days searching through the contents of short fiction anthologies to figure out the most frequently anthologized short stories of the recent past. The results were useful.

Julia Hartwig, a veteran Polish poet, essayist and translator, has died at the age of 95.

The author of 'The Captive Mind' became a political thinker who didn’t like politics.

I am freemium – I have a proof of concept – My life is on brand

“An unprecedented opportunity in the history of working class literature.” By Megan Walsh. (May 1, 2017)

Having experienced both Nazi and Communist rule, Poland’s great exile poet arrived at a unique blend of skepticism and sincerity. By Adam Kirsch.

Glimpsed through the lens of Guite’s biography, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” constitutes the “involucrum” of Coleridge’s existential chrysalis. By Kelly Grovier.

Rebellious Russian poet and author of Babi Yar, who became a celebrity in the west

Above all else, Dad was a writer and a voracious reader – his copy of Gibbon’s Decline and Fall was annotated, read, reread and worn. By John Carter Cash.