Understanding of literary texts can be greatly enhanced by an appreciation of the context within which their authors lived and worked. Each of these volumes focuses on an individual writer, offering ...

TO show the semantic power of the three rhetorical devices that we have taken up the preceding columns — namely the ...

Solange Azagury-Partridge knows a thing or two about what makes for iconic jewelry design. Her pieces are in the permanent ...

“Nickel Boys,” with its intelligence and, surprisingly, its sentimentality, critiques the camera in American cinema. This is the kind of movie that gives and gives but holds back, to ...

If “The Antique” doesn’t quite have the haunted, bone-deep impact of its predecessor, its gently tempered sentimentality may carry it further on the global arthouse circuit following a ...

Juan Soto is gone, and in the end, the Red Sox weren't even close. Soto chose $765 million of Steve Cohen's money over whatever emotional arguments the Red Sox could muster to augment their own $ ...

The Red Sox had hoped to sway Soto by playing on his love of David Ortiz, but all you need to know about the role of sentimentality in this negotiation was that the Yankees reportedly offered $760 ...

Its mix of vulnerability, sentimentality, and disarming goofiness has made it a Christmas movie classic for decades, but there’s also plenty of ick. Actor Keira Knightley recently shared her own ...

As you sort through every tangible possession from your parents’ lives, I guarantee you’ll pass through these stages: Sentimentality, calculation, avoidance, disappointment, totem, and dumpster.

Here are the year’s most notable collections of verse as chosen by our poetry columnist. Credit...Karan Singh Supported by By Elisa Gabbert Elisa Gabbert’s collections of poetry and essays ...