Have you ever noticed how we avoid thinking about death, as if ignoring it will make it disappear? It makes us uncomfortable, ...

Lior Geller's film chronicles prisoners who escape the first Nazi death camp to provide the first eyewitness account of the ...

They let children write the story, and rewrite it with each visit. They’re delighting adults too. (It’s a step up from ...

So easy to tell Israel to exercise caution as mother Shiri Bibas and her sons Kfir and Ariel were being dragged away to their unspeakable death by Gazans. So easy to lecture and chide and talk about ...

Hamid Rahmanian has made it his life’s work to share the richness of Iranian culture. “Song of the North,” at the New Victory Theater, is just the latest installment.

We didn’t have choices — or, to put it differently, the choices were taken from us. In his book “ The Paradox of Choice ,” ...

One of the first modern women composers to reach international acclaim, Gubaidulina wrote bold music, inspired by Eastern and ...

New documentary on Holocaust survivor "Elie Wiesel: Soul on Fire" to be shown at Central Mass. Jewish Film Fest.

Reading slumps happen to even the most avid of readers, and, honestly, all it takes is one amazing, incredible, and life-changing book to get you back into the reading game. Recently, I asked members ...

In 'The House of Awadh', Aletta André and Abhimanyu Kumar present a new account of the tragedy of Awadh and its slow ruin.

Silent travel is an ancient tradition. It’s also an exploding trend. What is it like to live a life that’s intentionally ...

Written in the key of Ab major, The Living Years moves along at a stately 98 bpm. Sweeping synth strings intro the song and 20 seconds in, a rhythmic guitar/synth pattern enters the mix, which forms ...