A follower of Emerson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson became a passionate abolitionist and supporter of John Brown.

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The essayist playfully contrasts the apocalyptic, fundamentalist worldviews of her childhood with the teeming abundance of ...

Bill Gates’s first memoir; new novels by Ali Smith, Anne Tyler and TJ Klune; a Booker Prize nominee and more.

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On Sunday, the American Library Association announced that Everett's “James” was this year's winner of the Carnegie Medal for ...

The actor is at his best, most alive and inventive here. But The Thing With Feathers doesn’t know what kind of movie to be.

Hope is the thing with feathers’ is a poem by Emily Dickinson; ‘Grief Is The Thing With Feathers’ is a flighty, wonderful ...

Cooking has always been a way of dealing with winter. It’s an activity that grounds you, creates heat (“I love it when the ...