When Moby Dick was first published in 1851, it did not make much of a splash. It was not until it was rediscovered by the ...

I thought I’d live ‘til ninety-five. Miriam Bruning Carmichael is a retired Registered Nurse. She developed a life-long love ...

To be sure, record-high levels of student and worker disengagement from school and work are disturbing trends. However, these ...

“In [Erica] Reid’s Ghost Man on Second, the real ghost man floating through the pages is the sonnet.” I n listing the ...

“I swore I heard willows cry/through the zig zagged fields,/traveling through my universe/as quickly as the moon touches our light” eerie and calming as the oldest house on Main. My walk disturbed by ...

“For example, if poor children grew up in a neighborhood where 70% of their friends were wealthy, their future income on average will increase by 20%, similar to the effect of going to a four-year ...

Johnny Payne is the arts editor at Merion West. Johnny is a poet, novelist, playwright, and essayist. He has worked extensively in Latin American Studies, especially literature under dictatorship and ...

“The deregulation of air travel and other sectors of the economy in the 1970s was (and continues to be), in my view, a profound mistake. While controversial, I assure you that this contrarian take is ...