The authorized biography 'Tupac Shakur,' written by Staci Robinson, was published on Oct. 24 Raymond Boyd/Getty ; Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Tupac Shakur and Jada Pinkett Smith had a once-in-a-lifetime ...

SEPTEMBER 1, 1939: A Biography of a Poem. By Ian Sansom. Harper. 341 pages. $27.99. The subtitle for Ian Samson’s book “September 1, 1939: A Biography of a Poem,” is such an unexpected combination of ...

Everyone is anxious right now, and that seems like the perfect time for this humorous book, “Love Poems for Anxious People.” New York Times bestseller John Kenney brings his funny poetry back, this ...

Sitting in a bar on 52nd Street, WH Auden read in the “folded lie” of a newspaper about the accession of Danzig to the Third Reich. The poem he would write about the events of that night is the ...

"The eminences that you are in the presence of do teach you,” says acclaimed biographer Megan Marshall. “Even if not directly how to write a poem, there are messages about life that are significant ...

We tend to think of John Keats as, in Lucasta Miller’s provocative phrase, “the most romantic of the Romantic poets.” He’s the pure soul—so the legend goes—who died at only 25, penniless, passionately ...