At the time of her death in 2019, the late Mary Oliver was one of the most successful American poets to ever publish. She wrote dozens of collections, and several highly quotable bangers that a reader would be as likely to encounter on the family bookshelf as the SAT. With champions like Oprah and Maria…
Siri Hustvedt was halfway through a new novel, about a writer tasked with completing his father’s unfinished manuscript, when her husband, the novelist Paul Auster, died from lung cancer. Continuing that story in his absence felt impossible. They were together for 43 years, the length of her career. She’d never published a book without his…
The aftermath of the shooting that sent Secret Service agents rushing President Trump from the dais at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on Saturday night played out on social media as videos were widely shared of the chaotic and surreal scenes. An investigation was continuing about the motive of the gunman, identified by two…
Two spectacular stellar nurseries—the Lagoon and Trifid Nebulae—have been revealed in dazzling detail in one of the first public images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. Located 4,000 light-years from Earth, these distant clouds of gas and dust mark the debut of the observatory’s scientific capabilities. Released during a livestream on June 23, the images…
