Some of the essays in ‘Wild Fictions’ are personal, others analytical, but all of them carry the quiet energy of a writer who has never been content staying in one place, intellectually or otherwise.

City of Fiction,” a novel by Yu Hua, follows a man on a search for his missing wife amid bandits and warlords.

People from across the United Kingdom swarmed this small town, and soon book sellers from other kingdoms and republics ...

A scientist has made a bold claim about the location of the Garden of Eden. He used Medieval world maps to find the Biblical ...

Which material was popularized in ancient Egypt (and later used by Greece and the Roman Empire) for writing books and other ...

It seems plausible that the beginning of the settlement of the children of Israel in the eastern Nile Delta—dated to ...

The word Israel in Hebrew is יִשְׂרָאֵל.  It is formed from its root which has a meaning which most scholars think conveys ...

Jamie Hood’s account of the three times she was raped in two years, Trauma Plot, shows her to be both a sharp critic and a superb memoirist ...

As Richard Roxburgh stars as me in a feature film, I confront a disturbing reality: more journalists are behind bars today ...

By R.A. MathewsHis birthday was last week, and he was delighted to show me the necklace he had been given by a friend. In ...

By R.A. Mathews His birthday was last week, and he was delighted to show me the necklace he had been given by a friend. In ...

Passover, a Jewish celebration of freedom from slavery in Egypt, is celebrated in April. Jewish families will once again come together to celebrate a Seder meal. Here is what you need to know about ...