During a dry period of writing, Creative Writing Associate Professor Maggie Dietz felt the stirrings of a new poem. Lines from “If You Would Let Me” came to her in waking dreams, she says. Several ...

If you’ve read any commentary about younger people, none of the following statistics will surprise you. Approximately 19% of ...

Saved by the Beauty of the World” works best when it illuminates her work, whose fans include Stephen Colbert and Oprah Winfrey.

There’s nowhere I can go that she’s not haunting me. She’s everywhere.” Will’s son, Cal, was on the phone again. The city in ...

In the wake of his death, much has been written this week about Clive Davis’s ability to identify a hit when he heard it, but even legendary talent-spotters get it wrong sometimes. Such was the case ...

For Juniper Simonis, that night in 2012 replays like the start of a favorite movie. It’s a warm summer evening, and she’s speeding through Ithaca, New York, on her bike. The wind is in her hair — at ...

Sometimes drama and lyricism comes together perfectly. These are three dramatic one-hit wonders from the 1980s that sound ...

At a star-studded Black Excellence Brunch, Marsha Ambrosius turns Patti LaBelle's R&B classic into a tear-jerking Essence ...

Plus, Olivia Rodrigo boasts four songs in the top 10. By Gary Trust Taylor Swift’s “I Knew It, I Knew You” lassos a second week at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. The single from Toy Story 5, inspired ...

A legendary pop band's only No. 1 hit came back in 1979 and it was named one of the greatest guitar solos of all time.