We sat around the fire, each guest posing a question and landing on a poem that as they read, felt like Hafez was speaking directly to their heart. My doubts about whether our friends would “get it” ...

The annual challenge for clerics is to present a story listeners think they know everything about — the Son of God being born ...

Francis P. Church’s editorial, 'Yes Virginia, There is a Santa Claus' first appeared in The New York Sun in 1897, and is ...

Longfellow Deeds is probably the most likable Adam Sandler character for a variety of reasons. One of the biggest is the fact ...

Many years ago my friend Michael Leunig said to me that his father was ill and in hospital. Would I like to meet him? “No ...

As much as I wish they hadn’t, and though they took up no physical space in our backpacks, our fear and confusion about the ...

Comedian will earn up to £1million thanks to his triumph with Dianne Buswell - and they've solved Strictly's image crisis in ...

What are heart murmurs in children? Heart murmurs are extra or abnormal sounds made by turbulent blood flowing through the heart. Murmurs are graded on a scale of 1 to 6, based on how loud they are.

This week my dear friend, Penny, sent me a powerful poem, read beautifully by an older woman, my age or older I presume, on Instagram. Titled “Let Them,” it spoke directly to my heart in a ...

Know it by heart. Memorizing the poem is part ... the cycle by Berlioz, which sets six poems of Gautier. They were friends and neighbors, Berlioz and Gautier. (How fortunate for each.) ...

This searing posthumous anthology from Alareer (editor of Gaza Writes Back), a Palestinian poet and English professor who was killed by an Israeli air strike in 2023, collects his heart-wrenching ...