You’ll find your way,” renowned Philadelphia illustrator Charles Santore told his youngest son, Nicholas, from his hospital ...

Ayo Baje Today, it is a pleasure to celebrate Sir Oyoze Baje, a man whose life is a testament to intellectual curi­osity, firm dedication, and a spirit that refuses to be confined by boundaries. As ...

Peter Gizzi, professor of poetry at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, recently won the 2024 T.S. Eliot Prize for ...

The prime rib at The Albany is so tender, it practically cuts itself. It’s the beef equivalent of a warm, cozy blanket on a chilly Wyoming evening. Each slice is a perfect balance of juicy meat and ...

Most of the artists are from out of town—but the Independent talked to four local participating artists and asked them to ...

Thirteen-year-old writer Ariana Shaprow is displaying her poem “The Way It Should Be” at the Mosaic Children’s Museum in Woodland, California, celebrating the accomplishments of ...

It took Kimberleigh Collins-Peynaud six hours after feeling symptoms to seek medical care. She said they did not seem like ...

One way to think of poems is as the stories of a moment. All art, at its root, is a way of telling stories. Even paintings — the Mona Lisa is the story of a woman’s smile; the ceiling of the Sistine ...

Neon Genesis Evangelion remade the mecha genre in its own image and changed the medium of anime forever. Even popular anime ...

Arun Ganapathy visits the home of Rama s biographer in Varanasi and finds that the Ramayana s key characters are living entities for the localsAt the end of the famed ghats of Varanasi there s one gha ...

A song often referred to as the Black national anthem, “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” will be performed by local artist Ledisi at Sunday’s Super Bowl in New Orleans, the fifth year it has featured in ...