Arts & Culture

It’s hard not to burst into conversation as the credits begin to roll for writer and director Justin Siemen’s Dear White People. The racial satire…

From 1996 to 1999, the Muslim Waqf illegally constructed the subterranean el-Marwani Prayer Hall as an extension of the al-Aqsa mosque on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount….

Because he had largely eschewed the public spotlight after the release of his 2010 memoir Decision Points, many were quite surprised to learn last year…

American sinophiles have a tough time of it. Even painting in the broadest strokes possible, the complexity and breadth of China’s political and cultural history…

The cover of The Opposite of Loneliness shows a young woman standing on the sidewalk, tightly framed against a blurred-out background, from mid-thigh to the…

Terminal illness, advanced aging, and the inevitability of death- sure to put a damper on any casual conversation, it comes as little surprise that disheartening…

An associate of mine is fond of telling a Thanksgiving story from a few years back, when he was invited to the home of his…

“Won’t you be my neighbor?” Dr. Ben Carson and his wife, Candy Carson, might as well just ask in their latest book, One Nation: What…

Through thick spectacles, my grandma squinted futilely. She raised her new iPhone 6+ within centimeters of her glasses, her arched nose nearly activating the gadget’s…

Personal war narratives are a difficult genre. At their worst they have the literary complexity of grocery store romance novels, glorifying the participants (specifically the…