I inherited many books from my older brothers—esoteric books from the 1970s on running and weightlifting, and Pietro di Donato’s classic novel Christ in ...

One hundred years after his death, Camilo Pessanha remains a towering figure in Portuguese Symbolist poetry, and one of the literary world’s most compelling stories of displacement, reinvention, and ...

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It’s been described as embarrassing, clichéd or “unhelpful singsong.” Many poets dislike it too, but it’s a style they’ve learned from each other. By Gregory Cowles Gregory Cowles is senior editor of ...

If you worked in an office at any time during the past few years, chances are you suffered through a sermon on authenticity, with chief executives and heads of human resources purring on about ...

Other art parallels range from literal to symbolic, and in some instances, both. An example of this is a shot of protagonist Yuji Itadori as a baby, who is being embraced in the womb by his ...

Things are not as they seem inside the Art Institute of Chicago’s new exhibition. On view since October 4, 2025, Strange Realities: The Symbolist Imagination displays a series of late 19th-and early ...

Poet Technologies develops optical engines suited for AI computing. Marvell announced the acquisition of Celestial AI. A Poet investment represents a higher degree of risk, so investors should proceed ...

A Howard County author is seeking $7.5 million in damages against Busboys & Poets, alleging in a lawsuit that the local bookstore-cafe chain has engaged in discriminatory behavior and falsely ...

Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a recently opened exhibition at a museum not in New York City, a place we know and love that already receives plenty of attention. I was in the room ...