There is something irredeemably human in the small, everyday error of a poorly placed cup – in the distraction that leaves a coffee stain on a page. It is a trace, time that had the courage to settle, ...

When it comes to cleverly crafted fine lines in prose or poetry, a palindrome is a word, phrase, or sequence of words that ...

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.” ...

Dr. Dominguez is survived by his daughter Carmen Finnicum and her husband, Bruce, of Newark and his sister Ivia Junco of ...

The funding, originally intended to support Deep Vellum's publication of international authors, was abruptly terminated as ...

It is almost inevitable that, when discussing the recently concluded Papacy and the one to come, attention focuses on the core message of the head of the Catholic Church. In the case of ...

By Peter Wortsman, art by Aurélie Bernard WortsmanTurtle PointMy introduction to the delightful and expanding world of ...

Daniel Lubetzky, a guest investor on Shark Tank and the founder of Kind Snacks, has built a reputation for identifying and backing strong entrepreneurs.

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?