As the world mourns Pope Francis' death, here is what you need to know about the Novemdiales, or the nine days of mourning.

When our waking thoughts get transmuted into dreams, what do we learn?

Jhola” is a Nepali historical drama based on the short story by Krishna Dharabasi. It highlights the inhuman Sati tradition, ...

David Thomas, lead singer of the avant-garage band Pere Ubu and the Cleveland proto-punk group Rocket From the Tombs, has died at the age of 71.

Filmmaker Noam Gonick writes about making his film Parade, an ode to the movement that made queer people who we are today.

Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple ...

The Dalai Lama has hopes for Tibet, but as someone who knows the feeling of having governance forced upon him all too well, he does not say that these conditions are the absolutely correct ones.

Curators think the volume's corners and spine are bound in the skin of William Corder, an infamous criminal who was convicted ...

The Tibetan Book of the Dead, or the Bardo Thodol, is arguably the most popular Buddhist text in Europe and the United States ...

Occasionally, I collide with my past in the form of laminated ID cards. Some I keep in my wallet as reminders. Others I have ...

Pope Francis, Latin America’s first pontiff who ministered to poor people with a message of mercy, has died. Francis stressed ...