Marilyn Hacker reads and writes with an ear cocked toward living language. Her diction takes in the raunchy, down-home language of street corners as well as the lyrical richness of a metric line and the punctuated earnestness of a good conversation with...

Marilyn Hacker fits into the contemporary poetry scene because of her unusual critical perspective, which bridges the traditional and the feminist. In a literary era in which women are purportedly confronting the patriarchal tradition and showing how sin...

How to successfully integrate and showcase boys in your competition numbers Everyone knows that when it comes to enrollment in dance classes and involvement in performance groups, girls far outnumber boys. Nowhere is this more true than in the world of competitive dance,...

Sociologist and writer Alisdare Hickson has inadvertently compiled the funniest book of the year. He wrote to 5,000 distinguished personages trawled from the pages of Debrett's and Who's Who, asking for their memories of homosexual encounters at public school. Some returned the letters defaced...

On a recent afternoon, David Boies, 65, and his son Christopher, 38, pulled up chairs for an interview in the firm’s glossy new Manhattan offices on Lexington Avenue. “DB,” as he is known in the office, was adrift in a baggy navy suit and suede...

LAS VEGAS—Tonight, Hillary Clinton hit back.After weeks of withering attacks by her Democratic rivals, political missteps by her own campaign and a seeming inability to give a straight answer on the hot-button issue of driver’s licenses for illegal immigrants, Ms. Clinton took the platform...