Young artists in Benin are breathing new life into Vodun traditions. Through slam poetry, rap and gospel, they're turning social media into a powerful tool for cultural transmission. A movement that ...

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But here, the scathing judgment that slam poetry competitions have become known for is traded for something more constructive. Through call and response prompts, for example, there's no shortage ...

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Charles Dickens, George Orwell and Sylvia Plath will all disappear from the HSC English syllabus in NSW, but their ...

Whether you enjoy histories, non-fiction, poetry, crime or even romance, there is a sporting story to suit all readers.

One example is Lim’s “New Town Ghost” (2005). In this performance piece, a female activist raps slam poetry through a loudspeaker to the beat of a drum through Seoul’s busy Yeongdeungpo ...

Victoria: Australians love a good sport story, because we love our sport. While many of us think of sporting nar-ratives ...

If the Haskell Library is the quirky cousin of Vermont’s libraries, then the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum is the sophisticated ...

I literally have a box on the floor of my office into which I put new books. This is an improvement from when I had them ...