After a dazzling career in poetry, the Iranian American author makes his novelist debut with ‘Martyr!’, a story based on his ...

While core acts of devotion take center stage, qasidas (Islamic odes) and devotional poetry serve as powerful complements, enriching the experience of Ramadan and deepening one’s spiritual reflections ...

Berkshire poet David Giannini’s new collection 'Stones Are the First to Rise' explores nature, politics and the shifting ...

Patrycja Humienik’s debut poetry collection, “We Contain Landscapes,” explores chronic illness, climate change, borders and inheritance. A self-described queer immigrant, Humienik also questions a dau ...

The 24th Poet Laureate of the United States – and the first of Hispanic origin – shares her experience as an ambassador of ...

The authors of the celebrated novels ‘Wandering Stars’ and ‘Martyr!’ are each other’s valued early readers. “We both wrote ...

At Back Cove Books in Portland, Maine, readers will find cozy spaces to dive into a good book and diverse new reads ...

A posthumous memoir by the Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, which detailed his fight against autocracy and ...

A Ghanaian-born poet; a chronicler of the Cuban refugee experience; and an experimental artist "writing between genres" are this year's winners.

The poem, '40 Love' has been hailed on social media as both 'beautiful' and 'genius' with it's unusual layout mimicking a ...

Diverse elements of Chinese culture and civilization have influenced Persian literature, particularly Persian poetry. Many ...

Through her poetry, Thasia Lunger, 69, draws on her memories of fearing for her life to offer hope and encouragement to ...