Artists are dangerous people. Do you doubt it? Plato was the first one, in the western world, to make clear exactly how dangerous they are. Their danger even had an impact on his political theory; ...

"In these last few days, I have taken to writing poetry, which I have rather scorned in my old age. Yesterday, Leodamas paid me a visit to discuss a certain geometrical theorem, and seemed so taken ...

Wednesday is April Fool’s Day, but the subject of a talk at 7 p.m. at The Mark Twain House & Museum, 351 Farmington Ave., Hartford, while outrageous, is no hoax. Author Paul Fischer will give a free ...

Poet and novelist Ben Lerner’s little book The Hatred of Poetry, currently receiving some critical notice beyond the world of verse, is an entertaining cultural polemic that begins in certitude—Hatred ...