A college professor spent seven years decoding the inscription on the grave of the writer Jonathan Swift. He thinks he’s ...

Ted Turner, a mercurial tycoon and gadfly visionary whose “superstation” TBS was a cornerstone of cable TV’s early success, ...

Is that all that a poet has to look forward to at the end of the day? Ironically, it is Yeats himself who may be readily adduced by those who cherish hopes for a more sanguine outcome. When T. S.

In 1991 the Star asked readers what they would put on their tombstones. The results — 47 of them ran in print on Oct. 31, 1991 — are simultaneously funny, strange, sad and just chock full of terrible ...

What weeping face is that looking from the window? Why does it stream those sorrowful tears? Is it for some burial place, vast and dry? Is it to wet the soil of graves? This poem is written in free ...