What's a short, sweet way to express your love? With love haikus! Love haiku poems offer a concise and beautiful way ...

Funny poems that bring the laughs in verse Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems, short poems, funeral poems and other forms of poetry are stuffy, profound waxings on the natural ...

Our Poetry Book of the Month reviews include an extraordinary posthumous collection from Gboyega Odubanjo and JH Prynne’s ...

Testard had launched Fitzcarraldo Editions the previous year, with the goal of creating a distinctive list of literary ...

"Love Jones" has become something of a cult classic since its original 1997 release. The film starring Nia Long and Larenz ...

If, as the saying goes, history doesn’t repeat itself but it rhymes, the battles for control of Mosul and Helmand feel like ...

In 1982, Ondaatje won the CBC Short Story Prize. Oh Witness Dey! is a poetry book by Shani Mootoo ... Death by a Thousand ...

Children born to parents who ­survived the Holocaust inherited a world of ghosts. There were the murdered relatives they ...

He was allowed to keep writing because the communist dictator enjoyed the western attention and the image of Albania as a cultivated country Ismail Kadare: the closest he came to a bullet in the head ...

Joy Williams distills much learning — from philosophy, religion and history — into 99 stories about the guy who takes your ...

Incredibly funny, in a way so unique to its horror ... Fargo Cole’s translation of Under the Neomoon. The short pieces in ...

It’s funny—the phrase “chess prodigy,” to me, suggests a small child, which is the same mistake Margaret makes in the story.