Poet Mary Jo Bang has spent the last two decades translating the three books of Dante's Divine Comedy. Purgatorio is the ...

Poetry has been an essential part of many countries’ popular culture for centuries. Italy, Russia, Iran, Chile, Poland, and Nicaragua are good examples, to name just a few. In these places, professors ...

Big changes are in store for East Harlem as the MTA ramps up work on the long-awaited extension of the Second Avenue subway.

Rural communities too often awaken from the American dream to find that it has vanished. Opportunities that once kept their best and brightest at home shrivel to the point that the communities they ...

Scholars and students have spent nearly a decade documenting and digitizing a vast, first-of-its-kind repository for hundreds ...

D.C. is among the most educated U.S. cities, and Washingtonians are, stereotypically, great lovers of bar trivia and fun ...

How is it that some of us are privileged and many are not? This subject is at the heart of a new collection of poetry.

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A new show "Five Friends" at Museum Brandhorst considers Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Merce Cunningham, and Cy Twombly.

I have a friend who follows the practice of gratitude. Each evening she writes down the things she is thankful for that happened that day.

On June 12, Eve Karlin made Aliyah to Israel with the assistance of Nefesh B’Nefesh. Twelve hours later, at 3:30 a.m., she ...