On the brink of the 19th century, in the Scottish town of Dumfries, the poet Robert Burns wrote: “the honest man, tho’ e’er sae poor / Is king o’ men for a’ that.” Two centuries later, and about 100 ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...

“Paterson,” Jim Jarmusch’s wonderfully serene and beguiling new movie, unfolds as a series of verbal jokes so deadpan they’re almost subliminal. Adam Driver plays a bus driver. His name is Paterson, ...

If Paterson, New Jersey, already seems overblessed with great poets—William Carlos Williams and Allen Ginsberg both laid claim to the place—Jim Jarmusch believes it may have room for one more. In ...

MJ Sieira at the 2024 Research Open House. Photo Courtesy of Pratt Communications and Marketing. This paper examines productive adaptations in the work of the poet Williams Carlos Williams and the ...

The discovery of an 1899 cash book, whose back pages contain Paterson's unseen poetry, has thrilled Australian literature buffs. Major G. L. Lee, who commanded a squadron of the NSW Lancers in South ...

In Jim Jarmusch's 2013 film Only Lovers Left Alive the members of a vampiric odd couple live continents apart, but are linked by shared hipster tastes in music and literature. The writer-director's ...