While many are still recovering from their Christmas expenses, here comes February inviting everyone to talk about love in commercially familiar ways—flowers, chocolates, grand gestures, all worthy of ...

William Blake’s “The Clod & the Pebble” is a dialogue on tenderness and cruelty in three short stanzas. Read it with our critic A.O. Scott, and then play a game to memorize it.

Rooted in the landscapes of rural Blackpool, Elizabeth Bullock’s colourful impressionist paintings and lyrical poetry preserve places that time has quietly erased.