Jérôme Sueur’s “Natural History of Silence” and Pico Iyer’s “Aflame” explore the quiet (and the sounds) that sustain us ...

On a quiet summer evening in June 1990, Pico Iyer sat in his family home in Santa Barbara, California, when suddenly, he was ...

After years of not painting, Nicky Santore picked up his brush to paint the story of Pip, part beast, bird, insect, and ...

What happened when one anxious guy headed to a silent meditation retreat—no reading, no writing, no communicating, no eye contact—to spend ten days tuning into his psyche.

Pannir has spent years advocating against the death penalty from his prison cell, writing songs and poems that have been shared by Sebaran Kasih, an NGO founded by his sister. His works have been ...

The Omagh Bombing Inquiry continued on Thursday with loved ones sharing their memories of three more of the victims. The ...

His longing for silence and solitude, his contemplative vision ... Thomas Merton expressed this vision in his poetry, novels, essays, devotionals, and autobiographical writings. We present to you this ...

Njeri Wangari does Kenya's animals justice in this book, in which she talks about their characteristics in a witty, rhyming ...

Anne discovers how the poems of little-known Aghadowey poet Olivia Elder are a unique insight into a 17th-century rural Ulster community, as seen from a female perspective. She also hears how ...

Twenty students from Spokane-area schools will be showcasing their art in the annual Black Voices Symposium event on Monday, many of them gracing the Myrtle Woldson Performing Arts Center stage with ...

Ten literary translators and one editor have been announced as the winners of the Society of Authors’ Translation Prizes, ...

A shop owner and mother who was killed in the Omagh bomb blast has been described as “the moral compass” of her family, a ...