This anxious century has not given people much to feel optimistic about—yet most of us resist pessimism. Things must improve.

How many of you out there know the story of Sisyphus? In Greek mythology, he is punished by the gods of Olympus for cheating death. His sentence in the underworld was to push a boulder up a hill ...

That’s the goal of the new album from the American rock band Garbage, “Let All That We Imagine Be the Light.” Due for release Friday, it’s the sound of frontwoman Shirley Manson pushed to the brink by ...

Hurricane Katrina is waiting in the wings. —I.S. Aside from being surprisingly funny and beautifully written and making a story British schoolkids know off by heart newly fascinating ...