Titled The Pear from Rawalpindi, the translation by the author’s son Sukant Deepak takes the candid portrait of a mother-son relationship seamlessly into English.

Mount Vesuvius' eruption preserved the Herculaneum scrolls beneath a blanket of ash. Two millennia later, X-ray scans show ...

The writer and scholar Robert Macfarlane has spent much of his life climbing up mountains and fishing on rivers, and his ...

Stephen Harrigan explores his own Catholic boyhood in Texas—and the prophecy left behind by a Portuguese prophet girl—in a ...

Lina calls it the South China Sea, while a neighbor says it’s the Baltic — he’d “know that blue anywhere.” Among Lina’s ...

BELAGAVI: In a disturbing incident, unidentified miscreants desecrated copies of the Quran and Hadith kept at a mosque in ...

Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed founder of the militant Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), is an icon to many Kurds but a "terrorist ...

Announcing the passing of a loved one in local news media is a long-standing tradition and we are proud of the trust placed in us to make these important announcements. Every notice published to ...

As of May 2025, Poland has utilized just 17 percent of the funds available through the EU’s Recovery and Resilience Facility (KPO), according to the Ministry of Finance. The country has access to ...

St. Alphonsus Maria de Liguori teaches that praying for the dead is the greatest work of charity. When we help our neighbors materially, we share ephemeral goods, but when we pray for them we do ...

Before I get into what exactly makes me look forward to receiving this box month after month, here's a quick overview of Book of the Month, in case you aren't familiar. With this subscription box ...