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“Revolution is the job of poets and artists,” says Ko Maung Saungkha, leader of a rebel militia fighting the Myanmar dictatorship. He is not the only poet commander in a country with a strong tradition of political verse.

Spain’s most storied museum has been inviting writers, including Nobel laureates, to live nearby and take inspiration from its paintings.

In this respect, the president has something in common with Beethoven, Wagner and Martin Scorsese.

Here’s some of the history that the Barbie movie left out.

Dwight Garner discusses a new oral history of the venerable alt-weekly, Tricia Romano’s “The Freaks Came Out to Write.”

Young creatives should be able to dream of a future in the performing arts, writes Duncan Crabtree-Ireland.

“We can’t see what we’re capable of until someone turns a mirror toward us and reflects our own light back to us.”

At one point, a third of the white men in Denver were estimated to be Klan members.

A new novel about Thomas Mann’s longstanding American translator portrays a woman ahead of her time and, despite her shortcomings, important to leading Mann to a Nobel Prize.

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