The texts, allegedly between Swift and Blake Lively, were released in a filing as part of a long-running legal dispute ...

Another year of teaching my free, weekly CHamoru language classes through Zoom is coming to an end this weekend. As has become the tradition for my Zoom classes, that means it is time for some of my ...

Both Chinese and Burmese verses are performed during a classical poetry recitation and musical concert for Myanmar Radio and Television in Yangon on Wednesday. MYO KYAW SOE/XINHUA YANGON — Soft ...

TWO essential components of any song are its tune and its words. Most Indians can’t sing the lines of Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay’s 19th-century nationalist song Vande Mataram in tune; and an equal ...

Our staff's favorite songs from the past year of hits and deeper cuts. On the charts, 2025 was a year that often felt like flipping TV channels to find a new episode to watch and coming across nothing ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Pop music was not at all safe this year from the encroachments of an AI industry determined to slop-ify everything ...

Imagine receiving a love poem that reads: “Your breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle, browsing among the lilies,” going on to say that they are a “mount” that the author wishes to “betake” ...

Seamus Heaney was a visionary bulwark against small-mindedness. When the Irish poet died suddenly in 2013, at age 74, a benign literary presence was robbed from us. The posthumous publication of his ...

The song has been streamed over 3 million times in under a month. A song created through artificial intelligence has made history topping a Billboard country music chart, but it has also sent ...

No one has a bigger blank check to spend right now than Charli XCX, who has been spending her post-Brat days acting, logging movies on Letterboxd, and getting married. The pop star’s first music ...