An appreciation of South African playwright Athol Fugard, whose plays that bore witness to the cruelty of apartheid, ...

At the Imagination in Action event at Davos in January, Buolamwini took the stage to recite an original work called “Unstable Desire,” which talks about these risks and how to protect the value of ...

Their poems are part of world history and culture. Poets should and must document the destruction and horrors of war. But can poetry ameliorate a war or hasten a peaceful resolution? Perhaps ...

"I wonder what Afrikaans would sound like if it were spoken with an American accent" isn't a thought you have very often – if ever. But if it has crossed your mind, you're in for a treat.

Re “The Only Phone You Need Is a Dumb One,” by August Lamm (Opinion guest essay, Feb. 2): Three cheers for Ms. Lamm, an anti-tech activist. I am a boomer who grew up meeting people face to ...

And if you ask me how, I do not know. I only feel it, and I’m torn in two. Seamus Heaney’s love-poem to marriage, The Skunk, combines exile and erotica, moving from an American wilderness ...

Researchers have discovered a new type of neuron that plays a fundamental role in recognition memory -- how the brain registers the difference between new and familiar objects and forms long-term ...