Jan Herman

At Microsoft, Bill Gates was by many accounts a nightmare boss, 'prone to expletive-laden fits of rage," Anupta Das is quotes as reporting in her new book 'Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King.'

A simple poem becomes an otherworldly love song with the collaboration of a singer and composer.

If poetry make nothing happen, as W.H. Auden once wrote, it sometimes uncannily anticipates what will.

Sometimes he rewrote them. See an example and decide which you prefer: the early or the later version.

Colin Asher, author of the critically acclaimed biography of Nelson Algren "Never a Lovely So Real," now focuses on five emblematic figures — Huddle Ledbetter, Elmo Hope, Johnny Cash, Ike White, and Tupac Shakur — as he explores the influence of incarceration on blues artists, jazz musicians, country singers, rock'n'rollers,