Faith, Fiction, Friends

Britain’s poet laureate  Simon Armitage  has long been interested in myth and legend. He’s published retellings of  Sir Gawain and the Green...

It was an intriguing invitation. Read all the works of William Shakespeare in a year?     Poet  Dave Malone  posed the challenge. Writer  Ca...

Smart People , a 2016 play by  Lydia Diamond , has been staged by several companies around the country. It’s set in 2008, shortly before the...

You’re reading an article on literary criticism, and you spot an almost easy-to-overlook aside: “For example, no one has really explain...

The story begins with a young man, Harry, rescuing an older man, Ben, from drowning in a river. And yet it looks less like an accident ...

Last fall, while visiting London, it was a rare day when we weren’t traveling by double-decker bus from Victoria Street, around Parliam...

As William Farraday writes his memoirs, he realizes that much of his life has been something less than exciting. So, he embellishes a b...