CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Good luck trying to identity the first rebel artist. Yes, there was probably some wild outsider who drew confrontational sketches on caves that shocked the community 28,000 years ...

CHARLEVILLE-MÉZIÈRES, France — When Bernard Colin took over as caretaker of this city’s cemetery 27 years ago, his predecessor gave him some remarkably non-prescient advice: “Don’t worry, you won’t be ...

C4: the Choral Composer/Conductor Collective will present Rimbaud: This Fugitive Soul, featuring baritone, Muir Ingliss, at Saint Peter's Church, 619 Lexington Avenue New York, NY on June 14 (8pm) and ...

Is the brightest kind of maturity for us, right now at any rate. Reading those lines of Ashbery’s, or ones written much more recently or even earlier, one would never think to say that his tone has ...

French poet Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) is known as much for his legend as his writing. Taking up at age 16 with older fellow poet Paul Verlaine, Rimbaud shocked even the bohemians of Paris with his ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. —Let’s go to the green lindens on the promenade. The lindens smell good on mild June nights! The air so soft that ...

Paul Verlaine (1844-1896) was a French poet and prominent member of two late-19th-century literary movements: the Symbolists, which sought to express transcendent truths through suggestive diction, ...

Love Story The penalty for desertion is death by a firing squad. I’m saving you this trouble enclosed is a pistol. loaded with only one bullet. squeeze the trigger ...