Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

“Let observation with extensive view, / Survey mankind, from China to Peru.” We’ve neglected Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) in our Poem of the Day feature here at The New York Sun: a brief comic squib ...

Recently the NPR program "Science Friday" featured a young biologist named Danielle Lee. In the course of talking about the excitement of her career, she commented that individual curiosity is the ...

If I ever write a memoir, I'd like to title it "Everything I Know About Life I Learned in a Poem." Of course, the marketing team at the publishing house will likely never allow it — I'm told “poem” or ...

The Exeter Book poem, Judgment Day I, has been criticized for its lack of coherent structure, subtlety, or purpose. If it is approached as a wisdom poem, however, an abstract structure emerges which ...

This week’s guest on Poetry from Daily Life is Irene Latham, who lives on a lake in rural Alabama. Irene has loved poetry since childhood when her father introduced her to poems by Shel Silverstein.