In The Orchards of Basra', Hisham, a bookseller, is drawn into the life of Yazid, an intellectual from ancient Basra, by a ...

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No sooner had class resumed than the class tattletale, who had rummaged through the trash can, held up my discarded apple, ...

In a 1930 letter, Robert Frost stated his priorities as memorably — which, for Frost, meant as mischievously — as possible: “Am I any good? That’s what I’d like to know and all I need to know.” The ...

Nevertheless, for this poem, and for the first time in his career, Frost got paid—$15, by the editor of a New York weekly ...

Nikos Kazantzakis is for many the best Greek writer of the 20th century and his books have been translated more than his ...

Rev. Veranita Alvord has been lead pastor of Brevard First United Methodist Church for almost three years. While she’s still ...

In a homily read by Cardinal José Tolentino de Mendonça, artists were urged to be “witnesses to the revolutionary vision of the Beatitudes.” ...

Flaky croissants that shatter into buttery shards with each bite, danishes bursting with seasonal fruits, and cookies that ...

The father of gastronomy is regarded as Archestratus, an ancient Greek poet and philosopher in the mid-4th century BCE ...

All Natalia has for Valentine's Day is the grave of her husband, Vassyl, a Ukrainian soldier killed at the front and now ...

Imagine a piece of bread,” says Elizabeth McQueen, a postdoctoral fellow at UC Davis working on the Mellon ...