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Mortality is a subject Joan Didion has grappled with in recent years, both in life and on the page. In…

On Saturday, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., will bestow its Kennedy Center Honors…

Billy Collins was the U.S. poet laureate at the time of the 9/11 attacks. A year later, he wrote "The…

Nine Sioux tribes have been locked in a land dispute since 1877, when the government broke a treaty setting aside…

Author and historian David McCullough has explored the French influence on American life throughout his career. Jeffrey Brown and McCullough…

Stephen Sondheim is the Tony Award-winning composer and lyricist behind some of the most celebrated and titanic musicals to hit…

Chuck Close is one of the most-recognized artists of our era, best known for his large-scale portraits of friends, fellow…

Chuck Close is one of the most recognized artists of our era, best known for his large-scale portraits of friends,…

An ambitious, three-week festival called "Arabesque: Arts of the Arab World" opens at the Kennedy Center in Washington Monday. Jeffrey…

It has been widely noted that President-elect Barack Obama is a reader of poetry. Only days after winning the election,…