Macbeth, Mary and Midler: Solo Turns on Broadway

The Broadway season ends with a spate of one-person shows — two of them terrific

Milestones

DIED Valerie Eliot, 86, who married T.S. Eliot in the last years of the great poet's life; she edited an edition of his epic The Waste Land that included...

Valerie Eliot, Wife of T.S. Eliot, Dies at 86

Valerie Eliot, the wife of 20th century poet T.S. Eliot and noted patron of poetry, died in London on Nov. 9.

J.K. Rowling's The Casual Vacancy: We've Read It, Here's What We Thought

It’s not really possible to open The Casual Vacancy without a lot of expectations both high and low at the same time crashing around in your brain and distorting...

Obama’s Love Letters: The Power of the Poetry Nerds

I don’t know if it means anything–it may mean nothing–but two of the most powerful people in the world, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, apparently spent a lot...

The Two Faces of Anxiety

Philosophers and Poets, from their perch on the cutting edge of reason, have always seen the advantage of anxiety. It is the "dizziness of reason," argued Soren...

Q&A: TIME Writer Bruce Handy

Timehost: Who are the key cultural figures of our time? That's the question we're going to answer tonight — or at least we'll talk a lot about it. What do Bart...

The Cruelty of May

T.S. Eliot may have branded April the cruelest month, but he was not a French employer. For those whose prime concern is the productivity of their workforce, May...

A Losing Streak

T.S. Eliot may have thought that April was the cruelest month, but as far as Hillary Clinton is concerned, it's got nothing on February. As Barack Obama was...

Is It Too Late for Hillary?

T.S. Eliot may have thought that April was the cruelest month, but as far as Hillary Clinton is concerned, it's got nothing on February. As Barack Obama was...