The zero-sum thinker frames the world in terms of winning and losing, us and them. If one person is to get richer, someone else must get poorer. If China is doing well, then the US must logically be ...

Discovering the ways her great-grandfather’s rich life intersected with the hidden history of Zionism led to an unusually crafted new book, “Melting Point.” ...

An excerpt from the Preface to ‘Broken Nest and Other Stories’, by Rabindranath Tagore, translated from the Bengali by ...

Every year when the Swedish Academy announces the winner of the Nobel Prize in literature, I find myself contemplating the same age-old questions. What does literature do? Why do we need literature?

Dana Professor of English and Africana Therí Pickens' debut poetry collection earns praise in publications like Down East and The Adroit Journal as she shares her work through readings, panels, and an ...

Emcee Tilden Sankadore held up his cell phone flashlight and started swaying to the song one of the Two Eagle River students was singing and the audience joined him. Singing was one of the many ...

Mahatma Gandhi was killed today in 1948 For readers interested in remembering what exactly happened that day I present the text of the newspaper report as it appeared in The New York Times that dayThe ...