To read Ender Başkan’s debut poetry collection, Two Hundred Million Musketeers, is to perceive across generations. Purling in streams of braided narrative – 96 pages without a stanza break – it flows ...

Looking for your next great read? We asked critics, authors and literary folks about town to share books they're most excited for in 2026, featuring 20 new works by Tayari Jones, Claudia Rankine, ...

I attended my first Adelaide Writers Week in 1972, not as a member of the audience. I was a callow 20 year old medical ...

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Gustaakh Ishq,” directed by Vibhu Puri, is a slow-burn emotional story that, at its core, is multi-layered and carefully developed. When Pappan discovers ...

Love, Life and Mother Nature: Picture Book of Poems” (ISBN: 978-1834182124 released September, 2025 by Tellwell Publishing) ...

A once-promising writer learns some painful lessons in a tragicomic Colombian tale.

Language is a living and evolving tool. Occasionally we encounter words that seem like poetry when we read them. An example of such a word is 'juvenes.

"I Am Child, I Am Mother" -- The solo exhibition by artist Rachel Borntrager explores where line and color become language ...

Poetry events kicked up after a slight respite for the holidays. I attended the Blue Whale Reading two weeks ago, featuring ...

The Daily World Book Nook is celebrating National Library Lovers Month throughout the month of February. Also, Feb. 1 kicks off Children’s Author and Illustrators Week, Feb. 4 is World Read Aloud Day ...

Poet and author Rita R. Melissano, of Rock Island, will have a reading and book-signing at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 4, at Rock ...