Jo Case, The Conversation It’s that time of year again … and we’ve invited 30 of our writers, from fields as disparate as wildlife ecology and mathematics to literature and politics, to share their ...

is a portrait of a young Iranian American man searching for meaning ... What it’s about: “Intermezzo” is a tale of two ...

What a whirlwind year for books. With no shortage of riveting reads across genres, as 2024 draws to a close, we’re looking back on the books published this year that left a lingering impression, from ...

The Detective, aka Father Brown–Detective, is a 1954 British mystery comedy film directed by Robert Hamer and starring Alec Guinness as Father Brown. Like the even rarer American film Father Brown, ...

Nikki Giovanni, the fiery poet, author, activist, and educator whose words remind us of the power of art to evoke change, inspire hope, and express the depth of the human experience, died on Dec. 9, ...

American notions of Jesus were almost always depicted as white, with just a few exceptions. Hughes’ play, on the other hand, called for an entirely Black cast, including the mother and father of Jesus ...

Imported from Paris, the Folies became the longest-running show in Vegas history. Following the destruction of its iconic ...

The “Challengers” and “Queer” director discusses some books about his longtime preoccupation: the codes and customs of the ...

The New Arab speaks with award-winning Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha who has been calling out Israeli crimes through his ...

On Feb. 19, 1945, Joe Rosenthal waded ashore with a battalion of Marines in the attack on the Japanese island of Iwo Jima.

Mosab has a stern frown as he proudly holds up a copy of The Norton Anthology of American Literature as if to say to foreign ...

Victor Brombert, the Henry Putnam University Professor of Romance and Comparative Literatures, and an authority on French ...