An inheritor of a distinct tradition that stretched back to Coleridge and Emerson, Johnson’s naturalistic poetry was ...

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This year’s Portadown Speech Festival was brought to a memorable conclusion on Friday with a gala final night in Portadown ...

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We are not likely to have more lasting monuments put over us,” she wrote, “and we cannot have more gracious ones than the ...

Reading his concise, plain-speaking and often funny poems often feels like taking a workshop in mindfulness: one poem in Pink Dust calmly imagines an unmediated “world without people”, in ...

By The New York Times Books Staff Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review. By The New York Times Books Staff Novels by ...

Try these speed reading exercises to improve reading. You can also learn something about the news. There are reading texts at different levels. You can choose the reading speed of each text. If one ...

St. Patrick’s Day is March 17. Celebrate Irish pride with this collection of short, funny and catchy St. Patrick's Day quotes ...

How did a successful, financially sophisticated banker gamble his community’s money away? By David Yaffe-Bellany Lessons from a radical 20-year experiment and a quiet triumph of public policy.