The right piece of literature can help you heal. Bibliotherapy is finding new relevance through Emely Rumble’s work—and her ...

An anthology of her teenage poetry, published for the first time, shows ambition, even if the verse isn’t perfect.

Han Kang’s highly anticipated new book “Light and Thread” shot to the top of bestseller lists across Korea on its first day ...

Saint Dymphna isn't just the patron saint of mental illness. To Hillary Leftwich, she's also the saint of protecting women.

Lydia Millet's characters in Atavists interact and have little dramas of their own — the author's talent is on full display ...

Seattle Reads is the library’s citywide book group, with more than 20 programs planned in April and May, including events with U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón on May 16 and 17. Find a copy of “You Are ...

By William Logan William Logan is the author, most recently, of “Broken Ground: Poetry and the Demon of History.” When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an ...

trees that lined roads now lying on their sides. The librarian, my friend, speaks of water, light, of days given to keeping her mother warm. The children don’t know who the poet is. They’ll ...

"I tried to peel apart every single thing and make peace for it, try to understand it and let it go,” Maria Shriver tells USA TODAY.

In her charming introduction to this anthology, US poet laureate Ada Limón suggests that poems and trees “let us breathe together.” This comment calls to mind priest and poet Gerard Manley Hopkins’s ...

Isobel Williams, in the introduction to her renderings of the poems, rightly observes that Catullus, who was likely the scion of successful businesspeople, has a “book-keeper’s eye.” ...