Maik Nwosu is one of the Nigeria’s most notable writers and literary scholars. An award-winning and prolific writer, he has stamped his authority on poetry, drama, fiction and short story, publishing.

To help jump start your 2026 reading, especially if you need to get out of a reading slump, we’ve got nine suggestions that range from literary fiction to thriller to poetry. These books are around or ...

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Tackling this culminating challenge in the company of his beloved Beatrice, who inspired the poem, Dante must trasumanar, a ...

The true pleasure of literature can be found in demanding works such as Your Name Here, by Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff.

The Gift of Attention,” now on view at the Portland Museum of Art, follows the most fertile span of her creative life.

These op-eds dive into what it means to be human and what it means to be in community and emerge with universal truths.

While a book cannot stop evil forces, it can educate us, warn us, and prepare us for what’s coming. The books listed here not ...

Before the year ends, it’s time to publish my choice for the top 10 documentaries of 2025 – an assignment that, I must admit, ...

This is borne out by a poem by Hilaire Belloc, an old sailor and poet, who penned “The Microbe,” which begins, “The Microbe ...

DICKINSON — As the year comes to a close, you may find yourself searching for new reading material. Here is a short list of a ...

A short note about last week’s paper …thanks to the double power outages, I created the newspaper mostly using my phone. I don’t recommend it, and I hope to never do it again.