For 176 years, the city Austin had no poet laureate. Plenty of creative people hung out here. The official post, however, did ...

This was also true of Friedman’s last two records, but the contemplation of loss and mortality cuts closer to the bone on ...

Auburn, Ole Miss, Michigan, and Michigan State will play in the Sweet 16 in Atlanta on Friday and Sunday (Tickets). The SEC ...

In his latest book, Peter Kirkpatrick retrieves from Australian cultural history the compelling figure of the “ wild reciter ”, as a reviewer in the 1920s termed amateur elocutionists.

A posthumous memoir by Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, Hisham Matar’s novel “My Friends” and a poetry collection by Anne Carson were among the winners Thursday ...

But clues can be found in the figure of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, an Italian poet who, in the early 20th century, founded the Futurist movement and later contributed to the founding of fascism.

Before and after pictures of Australia’s east coast show the true scale of devastation caused by Tropical Cyclone Alfred. What was once a paradise for surfers, with golden, sunlit sands ...

Tropical Cyclone Alfred uncovered the 130-year-old wreck of the S.S. Dicky at Dicky Beach. The iron-hulled steamer was abandoned after being beached in a 1893 cyclone and has long been a local ...

Severe weather warnings remain in some eastern parts of Australia recovering from ex-tropical cyclone Alfred. Flood warnings ranging from minor to major still apply in northern New South Wales ...

It was such an iconic photography subject, especially at sunrise,” she said. Cyclone Alfred caused widespread coastal erosion along Australia’s eastern seaboard, with maritime experts saying ...