At the theater’s entrance, audience members are handed a packet of tissues sealed with a photo of a frowning man in a ...

I never expected to feel sorrow comparing my own country to another. But each time I return from China, I do. There, I see pride in motion — trains that whisper across the land, cities lit with care ...

Peter Thiel (who has said that “regulating AI hastens the antichrist”) provided early funding for Yudkowsky’s Machine ...

While the initial version apparently detailed his sister's achievements, it didn't leave a lasting impression of 'who she was ...

Writing about a son’s vigil at his dying father’s bedside, Georgi Gospodinov examines what parents and their children reap and sow.

Charles Spencer is sharing new details on how he crafted his sister Princess Diana’s eulogy at her funeral. In an interview ...

Steven Zipperstein argues for the brilliance and relevance of a writer who “probed nearly every aspect of contemporary Jewish ...

Have you thought much about your own funeral? You will now. For his latest trick, Seattle playwright Brendan Healy tackles a brand-new, deeply personal challenge: terminal illness, but make it fun.

It wasn’t quite what we were expecting. Gathered at the graveside after a cathartic funeral service, all eyes were on the officiating priest as he turned to my cousin: “A wonderful eulogy ...