An announcement from Simon & Schuster’s publisher left the literary community wondering whether blurbs, the little snippets ...

The Mainichi has published our annual selection of submissions to our Haiku in English section for 2024. Congratulations to ...

Chris says it's time for "Rick Barnes to go." Hall of Fame contributor James notices improvement in my writing. Maybe he ...

Absolutely riveting” and “compelling.” “A must-read” and “a tour de force.” Blurbs, those haiku-length endorsements on every ...

Mail your haiku on a postcard to David McMurray at the ... David McMurray has been writing the Asahi Haikuist Network column since April 1995, first for the Asahi Evening News.

His haiku is about the hatchlings that will be ... David McMurray has been writing the Asahi Haikuist Network column since April 1995, first for the Asahi Evening News. He is on the editorial ...

For the novelist Rebecca Makkai, writing blurbs had become nearly a full-time job. She explains why blurbs matter — and why ...

But after his fall, beginning in his first days in the hospital, Kureishi started to write furiously. A flurry of ...

One way to think of poems is as the stories of a moment. All art, at its root, is a way of telling stories. Even paintings — the Mona Lisa is the story of a woman’s smile; the ceiling of the Sistine ...

“For a long time,” writes Kathleen Jamie in her afterword to The Keelie Hawk (Picador £12.99), “I’ve wanted to write a suite ...

The new Pauli Murray Center in Durham, North Carolina, preserves the legacy of a gender-nonconforming giant of the civil ...