Wit details the final days of a brilliant woman who battles the final stages of cancer. Nixon's character, Dr. Vivian Bearing, has dedicated her life to studying such literary works as John Donne's Holy Sonnets, spending decades exploring the mystery...

Cynthia Nixon, who now stars in the role of Vivian Bearing, the character with a Stage 4 ovarian cancer diagnosis, is also bald. She wears a red baseball cap and a flimsy hospital gown. She has socks on her feet and an IV pole following her around. ...

“Who’s on top and who’s on the bottom, who gets what and who decides — the 12-year-old mind thinks of nothing else.” It can’t be a coincidence that “Wit” is about a teacher — Vivian Bearing, a renowned expert in 17th-century poetry, the work of John...

"In the current crisis, beyond the money involved, it is a common European destiny which is at stake. That is why … we will do everything that is required to maintain the euro and the financial stability of the euro zone," Rompuy said in his speech. ...

The metaphysical poets, inspired by John Donne, set out to make poetry that contained a new kind of imagery: it was of a kind never seen before. Indeed, you could say that it was outrageous. It may have been very inventive but it didn't make sense. The...

And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. ~John Donne (1572-1631) The One Anchorage Campaign is gaining steam as we march forward toward the April 3 Municipal election in Anchorage. Proposition 5, which would add...