LADERA RANCH – Resident Michele Ruvalcaba is one of several Orange County writers whose work has been published in the book “Interstices: An Anthology of Stories, Memoirs, Essays & Poems.” Ruvalcaba’s ...

There is an appropriateness, somehow, in turning to ”Next-to-Last Things” in this, the waning of the year. It is that kind of book: Portrait of the artist as an old man. One pictures the 80-year-old ...

Packing your analysis of two poems into one essay involves planning. There are different ways you could approach writing a comparative essay. These are some points to think about: ...

Friendship, for poets, has long been grist for the mill. Anyone studying poetry is likely to stumble upon literary friendships – William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge come instantly to mind, ...

Reading is an act of silent communion between the reader and the author. In this fiduciary relationship, the writer is enjoined with the onus of navigating the reader through the innumerable ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

In his second collection of essays, Tony ­Hoagland sets out on what seems a doubly impossible task, even for one of the more interesting and exciting poets writing today. His plan? To put forth 20 ...

One of the highlights of my first three years as a literature professor at MIT—and indeed, of my 15-year career as an educator—has been the recent discovery that some of my students, past and present, ...