Amit Majmudar presents his verse essay on pumping iron....

Three-quarters of a million Californians identify themselves as Native Americans. The other 98 percent of us are relatively recent arrivals. I would like to believe that this state’s most recent arrivals hold a key to our future. Perhaps the energy ...

Writing a book is luxurious. It is the luxury of Virginia Woolf taking 146 pages to accompany Mrs. Dalloway as she prepares for and hosts a party, of Jane Austen spending 276 pages strumming our nervous systems as she slooowly brings ...

HOLLYWOOD UNDERGROUND In the Spring of 1975, I became a resident of the St. Francis Hotel, a single-room occupancy establishment on Hollywood Boulevard in the heart of Hollywood, California. I was 21 years old. Two years earlier I had moved to ...

In this column, Saikat Majumdar discusses books from India that haven’t received due attention....

As the vicious and deadly attack on Olenivka penal colony in the Donetsk Region — where many of the captured Ukrainian POWs had been held — has shown, worse than the Russian atrocities in the ongoing war is only the cynicism of Russian ...

Amit Majmudar presents his verse essay on repetition....

We’ve had well over half a decade of a very intense debate about what is nowadays often simply called “the crisis of democracy.” One of the peculiar characteristics of that debate is that, on the one hand, plenty of observers ...

Mary Mykhaylova reports on how the Russian invasion of Ukraine has impacted the lives and self-identities of Ukrainians abroad....

Pavlo Matyusha, a prize-winning Ukrainian author and translator fighting on the frontlines, asks what happiness means during wartime....

Jake Marmer tells you all about skaz, in Ukraine and beyond, if you’ll listen....

Herb Randall listens close to Irina Mashinski’s “The Naked World,” a hybrid work chronicling the Russian-American poet’s journey towards freedom....

When the Dodgers arrived in Los Angeles from Brooklyn in 1958, it was the heyday of my baseball career — the only “organized” thing I’ve ever done, in uniform, no less — so naturally I was eager to see them play. Up ...

In some respects, the major Lithuanian poet Tomas Venclova can be grouped with those postwar Polish poets who grappled with the forces of history, especially 20th-century history: its horrors and injustices, its dislocations of people, the erasing and re-drawings of national ...

Rachel Hadas appreciates Theater of War’s production of Aeschylus’s “The Suppliants,” featuring Ukrainian actors....

If the recent Netflix adaptation of Persuasion has clarified anything, it’s that every decade requires its own reinterpretation of the Jane Austen canon. Since the 1990s, her five major novels have gone from reliable fodder for staid BBC adaptations to ...