Father’s Day in Iran, celebrated on Imam Ali’s (AS) birthday, highlights the pivotal role of fathers in Islamic and Iranian ...

Heather Lende, Alaska's previous Writer Laureate, shares a poem read on a cold, dark night during a dinner with friends.

"I'd promised my dad I'd make sure people knew how talented he was and now here they were, texting in to say they loved his ...

On January 25, the birthday of its national poet, Scotland celebrates Burns Night with a traditional Scottish meal washed ...

Going through possessions left behind is heartbreaking — and bewildering. What is precious? What is rubbish? And when the ...

If the Booker Prize is “posh bingo”, the TS Eliot Prize is the Cinderella Booker – the annual ball where poets descend from their garrets, put on their best frocks, and pray to win a grand prize that ...

In one-man show at Chicago Shakespeare, writer-performer Michael Shayan embodies his Jewish Iranian mother and keeps the ...

To all craftsmen and artists, carpenters and architects, to all of us who even knit the simplest sweater, or build birdhouses ...

After billions at the box office, the filmmaker returns to the Sundance Film Festival with ‘Last Days’, his first indie film ...

No other classic text has left such a mark on how we tell stories, create theatre, and structure film. But what does it ...

Words and phrases came from nowhere; I rarely had any sense of what they meant or to what context they belonged.

A beloved illustrator died in the middle of a project. His son, who had been drifting away from art for years, was given the ...