B.U. students and faculty members celebrated Harlem Renaissance leader Alain Locke’s birthday on Tuesday evening. Visiting lecturer Jeffrey Stewart spoke to the crowd about Locke’s famous ideas on “Negro Art,” [...]

Beneath a harsh spotlight that highlighted his salt-and-pepper hair, and face worn by drugs and years of partying, Steve Almond spewed curse words like a kid who had just discovered [...]

Author and screenwriter Dennis Lehane spoke at Suffolk University’s Modern Theatre Thursday night in a dialogue with Boston University Cinematheque curator and film critic Gerald Peary on life in Dorchester, the novels he’s written, and the films he’s worked on.

Ok, so you have maybe five days at home, longer if you skipped Monday and Tuesday classes or were lucky enough to have them canceled.  Sure, papers are due the [...]

Here’s one of my favorite poems below, as a sort of extension to the language article written this past issue. I don’t think it’s necessary for me to go into [...]

It’s November; stop shaving and start writing.

Ted Hughes’ poem, “The Last Letter” written on the night of Sylvia Plath’s suicide reaches the public domain.

‘Tis the season for monsters and mysteries.

The woman is too powerful.  She controls a massive percentage of the uterine population, and their unborn children.  This is a (book club) revolution.  It will not be televised.  Can [...]

Sun is good.  A cold Corona buzz is good.  Tanning up that pastiness is good.  Potential sunglass tan, not ideal but acceptable.  I like raccoons.  Bringing out some strategically colored, [...]

With a little help from Dr. Seuss, poetry is one way to deal with being fed up with finals.

Can you judge a person by his or her reading habits? Apparently not.