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The writer spent his life cultivating beauty—on the page and in the mirror—only to end it with a samurai-style suicide. Both ...

Jayantha Perera In 2016, Shyamala and I visited Peru and Chile in South America. We flew from Miami in the USA nine hours before landing at Santiago Airport in Chile. The sky was blue, and a mild cool ...

Aging does not have to be the loss of youthfulness. Feeling the spirit of youthfulness comes through forgiving life, play, ...

Follow live coverage of the state funeral of the 39th US president Jimmy Carter in Washington following his death at the age ...

In this remote African country, famo songs have been a storytelling tool for more than a century. Today, they’re used as a ...

They were part of a corrupt old boys’ club that spread addiction, dysfunction and death. That might be the foremost takeaway from the trial of Peter G. Gerace Jr., owner ...

As 2024 drew to a close, CDT editors compiled a series of the most notable content (Chinese) from across the Chinese internet over the past year. Topics include this year’s most outstanding quotes, ...

Phone records indicate that Livye and Edgar began texting each other in November 2019, when Matthew wrote: "You do realize you cannot say a word to ... Van Sant: Nothing at all?

But for her only sister it is very doubtful if her poems would ever have been printed at all ... morning's ride. Nothing in literature, I am sure, so condenses into a few words that gorgeous ...

The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Mercenary” delves into the truths and misunderstandings about the legendary knight.

Poet Nikki Giovanni’s death on Dec. 9, 2024, hit me in a way that I had not expected. First, I didn’t know that she was ...