The allure of a meal outdoors with friends to celebrate a special day or just to have a party — it’s a global impulse to enjoy the warmth of camaraderie. Sharing food isn’t just about nourishment; ...

First, the two parents were positioned to dispense a special non-alcoholic beverage, dawud, and a fruit-based ... of future occupations such as a tiny book for a teacher, a spoon for a chef ...

A new book by Phil Tinline recounts the history of a 1967 hoax and its ongoing influence as source code for antigovernment conspiracy theories. By Jeff Shesol Hallie Rubenhold’s “Story of a ...

In her children’s stories, Clarice Lispector disguised philosophical questions in cheerful, kooky fables about exuberant animals with places to be. By Joumana Khatib Laurie Halse Anderson ...

And so it goes, the cycle of exile and remembrance, uprooting and rerooting. With the Passover holiday, those free can celebrate their freedom, and those who are rooted, their rootedness. Yet at the ...

Passover is the only holiday that marks the transition from exile to wandering, and not to homecoming, highlighting the complexity of exile – the focus of my recently published book ...

Christopher Summerfield’s book “These Strange New Minds” offers a lucid intellectual history of AI and argues that chatbots are more than clever copycats. Joshua Hammer’s “The ...

This week, Kristin Hannah answers our questions, what's she reading now, what would she take to a desert island, what gave her the reading bug, and what book left her cold? There are currently ...