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Limón's work documents everything from kingfisher birds to the cosmos itself. "I'm embracing my strangeness," she says of her poetry. Her new collection is Startlement.

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In the age of social media, everyone has an opinion — and can freely share it. We each have a digital soapbox. Instagram stories and angry tweets flood our feeds, oversaturating the social media ...

English learners are sometimes an afterthought in 'science of reading' policies. Some educators want to change that.

Does Generation Z have the values employers are looking for, or has the culture shifted to individual happiness that has less to do with monetary success and career achievement? NYU Stern School of ...

In a world of dwindling reviews, the author Lydia Davis’s new work charts a more serendipitous path to reading.

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Last week, I began teaching a new undergraduate course on “Dissent and Democracy in the World.” I started developing the course over a year ago, convinced that the subject is not only essential to ...