A poet, raised among refugees in New York's Washington Heights, confronts the ghosts that inhabited his childhood.

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His mother was a singer passionate about poetry, while his father was working in the family ... This was a turning point in ...

This year's edition of the Frankfurt Book Fair, the world's oldest and biggest book fair, begins with the announcement of ...

Like the key she kept, the remarkable story of Bern-Vogel’s mother did not end in 1938. The following year, she and her ...

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His investigation into her life in communist East Berlin reveals long-concealed secrets, including an abandoned baby daughter. Like so many of her East German ... with Mozart, poetry and chess ...

Those words graphically bring to life a terrifying gas attack ... how soldiers also used humour and anti-German feeling to cope with the conflict. Much poetry written on the front line, such ...

The woman, who had recently graduated with a degree in literature, said she was sent to a 'backward' area of the Gobi and felt 'trapped' A Chinese literature graduate's complaints about her civil ...

A MAN IN a tie and suspenders smokes a cigar thoughtfully, its ash end hot orange in an otherwise cool blue shot. Its fiery ...

This year, a team of Times journalists marked the 100th anniversary of the Harlem Renaissance with a series examining its ...