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In Jabalia camp, a mother collects her daughter’s / flesh in a piggy bank, / hoping to buy her a plot / on a river in a ...

Chris Martin, the band’s front man, discusses reading Rumi, making music like an apple tree grows apples, and the band’s new ...

Though supplements and alt-milks are just a small part of the city’s vast and diverse food scene, Southern California has a ...

I’m talking mob justice.” The speaker was Ras Baraka, and he was already known around town as the principal of Central High ...

Mental-health struggles have risen sharply among young Americans, and parents and lawmakers alike are scrutinizing life ...

Later that day, the composer wrote to his sister Fanny, “To illustrate how strangely the Hebrides affected me, the following ...

Gabe Hudson reads and discusses “The Frog Prince,” by Robert Coover.

The HBO show—the most thrilling offering currently on TV—zeroes in on the domineering masculine impulse that drives the world ...

Stolen Pride, by Arlie Russell Hochschild (New Press). A deeply researched account of the rightward turn in Appalachia, this ...

The baseball team broke the modern-day record for most losses in a single season, but even lousy years have their limits.

Cafe Kestrel, in Red Hook, offers cooking that is highly idiosyncratic but not confrontational, from applesauce sundaes to ...