Contributing writer for The Prospect Michael Grasso details Princeton professor in creative writing Patricia Smith’s ...

A violent Colorado man dubbed the “Hammer Killer” has been found guilty of a woman’s 1984 rape and murder. Convicted murderer Alex Christopher Ewing, 61, was found guilty on Thursday for the murder of ...

National Book Awards judges honored authors worldwide on Wednesday night, from Lebanese novelist Rabih Alameddine’s “The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)" to Chicago-born poet ...

A convicted killer who's standing trial in Colorado for the rape and murder of a woman in 1984 railed against a "rigged" system during a bizarre courtroom outburst Tuesday. Alex Christopher Ewing, 61, ...

JEFFERSON COUNTY, Colorado — The trial of a man in the January 1984 rape and murder of a Lakewood woman is a study in looking at evidence – in some cases the exact same items – from very different ...

Two powerful voices, novelist Rabih Alameddine and poet Patricia Smith, win National Book Awards, offering moving, culturally rooted stories that blend pain, humor, and truth, proving literature’s ...

“Semen and similarities.” With those words, the prosecution opened its case Tuesday afternoon against Alex Ewing, the man standing trial in Jefferson County in connection with the gruesome killing of ...

Ilya Kaminsky, professor of creative writing, and Patricia Smith, visiting professor of creative writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts and the Princeton Atelier, have been named Academy of American ...