No one wants to be last in any competition. Right? Only about 20% of people are concerned about being the winner or loser.

“The Road Not Taken” is a famous poem for good reason: Robert Frost offers a valuable lesson on individuality and choice. Don’t follow the crowd, he says through the metaphor of a walk ...

This poem embodies that sort of intense, fleeting crush you get on someone that feels as though you know them from a past life. You know nothing about them, only what you imagine them to be like.

is one of the best things that our critic A.O. Scott read (and reread) this year. Isabella Cotier By A.O. Scott Let’s talk about love. That’s what the people in this poem seem to be doing.