China’s first poem-opera, The Hegemon's Farewell: Xiang Yu and His Beauty Yu, after its premiere on May 8 in Xi’an, China, debuted at China Night 2025 of the 78th Cannes Film Festival.

The War No One Sees It’s easy to think of the Bhagavad Gita as just a spiritual text buried in India’s ancient past — filled ...

The conquest story in Joshua belongs to a unique, time-bound moment of redemptive history. Yet Puritan pulpits universalized it, equating their ships with Israel’s Jordan crossing. Three interpretive ...

This isn’t ancient poetry. This is modern psychology dressed in Sanskrit ... Arjuna wasn't afraid of the Kauravas' strength. He was shaken by love, grief, and guilt — inner forces that made his arms ...

Ancient Chinese poetry is often nonfiction, including first-person accounts of everyday life and observations of nature, the authors explained. That’s why the poems served as a reasonable metric ...

But there was a fire blazing in Bing Concert Hall, where the audience at Poetry Live ... two performers’ soothing voices sang out their love for their homeland. Hawaii was the protagonist ...

I love Sicily, Sicilian food and Sicilian wines—not “White ... I arrived at Feudo Montoni, an ancient farmstead established as a vast sharecropping estate in the 15th century. Behind that success lies ...

She held a hard-fought Ph.D. in chemistry, but Helen Schaefer was probably best known in Tucson for her love and generous support ... And when the UA Poetry Center opened in its glittering new ...