The Nobel laureate’s new novel “We Do Not Part” grapples with an atrocity and the difficulties of bearing witness.

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One man was giving orders and Amrita stood herself in ... Pay us a bribe, the officer suggested, though he called it a tax. A tax for every tree. And then the men would march off and chop down ...

As the world marks the 80th year of the liberation of the Nazi death camp, author Thomas Harding is one of the few people who met the family of the mastermind of Auschwitz. Here, he recalls exactly wh ...

One was written that included Trump as a tree standing next to the Giving Tree. You know, the Shel Silverstein book where the tree gives everything she has to a young man? And that same tree gives ...

At Holden Village, a Lutheran retreat center nestled deep in the Cascades, I asked my students to consider their vocation in ...

I’ve recently become disillusioned with books as gifts, struggling to find a way to give books that will be read, but also ...

Then my father started to get creative—he'd light the firecrackers and then throw them high so they'd explode in mid-air, nipping the edge of the mimosa tree. After a time, he turned to me.

Dr Sanjeev Chopra Authors of most books published in the last two years – and I know this from reading the Prologue/Preface/Acknowledgments in books nominated for the Valley of Words Book Awards – ...

My kids are asking me about climate change and their future – how can I talk to them about it without scaring them?” ...