As Iran welcomes the first day of spring, two significant occasions converge on March 21st: Nowruz, the Persian New Year, and ...

An appreciation of South African playwright Athol Fugard, whose plays that bore witness to the cruelty of apartheid, ...

The Return, which reunites Juliette Binoche and Ralph Fiennes for the first time since the 1996 Oscar winner The English ...

Julie Swarstad Johnson, an archivist and librarian at the University of Arizona Poetry Center, has served as poet in residence at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff. She is author of the collection ...

Good Girl,” by the German-born writer Aria Aber, asks what it means to want to belong to a society that wishes you harm.

A dispute that’s been going on for centuries has heated up again as the neighboring towns plan competing celebrations to mark ...

The cry of the rooster was one of the most familiar sounds in the life cycle of a first-century person, as common as the ...

On one of the pages I had dog-eared was the poem, “Decide to Forgive.” I was struck by how timely it is. The message is much needed at this time. I believe in “doing unto others as you would have ...

Open any poetry book for proof: You ... short poem is “The Red Wheelbarrow.” This clean-cut gem by Jewish American poet and doctor William Carlos Williams invites us into a moment of ...

BEHAR: You like ... meeting the moment. It is very clear that Medicaid is on the table. It is very clear that Social Security is on the table. It is very clear that people will die.