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60 Finalists including Two Winners Published in a Compelling Anthology of Poetry & Short Fiction Auckland poet Maris O’Rourke has been selected as one of just 60 finalists in the international Aesthetica Creative Writing Award that attracted thousands...

An African-American teenager is shot dead by a white police officer. A fellow officer, African-American, refuses to keep silent about the murder. These are the events that open Jacqueline Woodson’s dramatic young-adult novel Hush, told from the perspective...

TO ENTER ANISH KAPOOR’S “Leviathan,” erected inside Paris’s Grand Palais in 2011, you walked through black swiveling doors. Once your eyes adjusted, you began to see. A giant red world unto itself, the structure looked from its...

Composer, conductor, and pianist Richard Carrick has been named chair of Berklee’s Composition Department. Carrick is a 2015-2016 Guggenheim Fellow and co-founder and co-artistic director of the contemporary music ensemble Either/Or. He succeeds Arnold...

September/October 2012 Melissa Faliveno With its buzz-generating statistical count of male and female literary bylines, nonprofit organization VIDA: Women in Literary Arts has raised awareness of gender disparity in publishing and created a space in...