The image on the cover of AUCTION, by Quan Barry (University of Pittsburgh Press, 83 pp., paperback, $18), is a translucent sculpture of a toilet by Do Ho Suh, made from (bluish!) polyester fabric ...

When we attached tiny, backpack-like tracking devices to five Australian magpies, we didn't expect to discover an entirely new social behaviour rarely seen in birds, writes Dominique Potvin.

A certain scientist had a cage, and took a magpie, and put the magpie in the cage. And the magpie’s head and neck were black, and black were its beak and eyes, but the breast and belly of the ...

Yes, a magpie. That loud, often destructive animal many consider a pest — and a close relation to the crow, a bird that, perhaps coincidentally, was the subject of a collection of poems by Ted ...

‘Magpie’ Review: An Unhappily Married Woman Daisy Ridley plays a time bomb with a simmering fuse in this slow yet gripping adultery thriller. Listen to this article · 2:02 min Learn more ...

Farai Chideya talks with Marilyn Nelson, poet laureate of Connecticut and author an emotional narrative poem on the death of Emmett Till. Nelson explains why she wrote the poem for young adults ...

The painter and poet discusses her new memoir, and living with the shades of her famous parents, Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes.

“Skin Tight,” by New Zealand playwright Gary Henderson, at 59E59 Theaters, evinces poetic aspirations in its portrait of a marriage, but lucidity is in short supply.

I think it's something that I want to dive into more through songwriting.” In addition to introducing new lyrical themes, Magpie also reflects a fresh direction in Peach Pit’s sound.

The magpie came back to the courtyard & its deep chill the magpie was a jay was a jackdaw was a bird in Germany if not a German bird. Whither the Carolingians and their monks whose recipes called for ...