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To understand this poem, you don’t need biography. Your own personal understanding of the loss of innocence and the pain of mortality serve just as well as Thomas’s disastrous attempts at adulting.

Society / In California, talking to your students about Gaza can have severe consequences. Mara Marques Cavallaro In early 2024—after the death toll in Gaza reached more than 25,000 and school was ...

Lately, my social media algorithm has been circling back to Sylvia Plath’s “The Bell Jar,” specifically her famous poem “The ...

Existentialism is a philosophical theory and a literary perspective. Its central proposition is that the world has no a ...

If it is ‘certain that we shall not be here for long,’ as Blaise Pascal says, ‘and uncertain whether we shall be here even one hour,’ then what lies beyond death matters more than anything else.

Pat Parker wrote about the negotiations required to survive in a society that rarely recognized the complexity of Black women’s lives.

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Modulator pills transformed cystic fibrosis care. But the fight for a cure is not over — so long as research remains funded.

Latina women like Frida Kahlo, Rita Moreno, and Ellen Ochoa are pioneers in their field, having become the first Hispanic women to achieve major feats.

From a second-chance romance to a deeply unsettling psychological horror to an exploration of the cosmos, WBUR literature writer Katherine Ouellette recommends nine books that confront the world in ...

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