What’s your favorite book?” I was asked the other day, a simple question that is calculus-difficult to answer.

The Pearl indeed is up there with Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden and of Mice and Men as John Steinbeck's great works – and in ...

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has defined his rule and Iran’s place in the world through his hostility to Israel and the US. Last ...

You don’t have to ban books if you can just stop people from reading. These are from some of my favorites: “Night,” by Elie ...

The Jewish communist Ben Gold’s recently reissued 1944 novel, Your Comrade, Avreml Broide, offers a glimpse into a world in which a radical tradition of egalitarianism and cosmopolitanism overshadowed ...

S.V.B. Arguably one of the most obvious candidates for this list, Robert Zemeckis' Forrest Gump is the very definition of an ...

Author: St. John, Son of ZebedeeDate Written: 90 ADDate of Narrative: 26-30 ADThe gospel of John is dramatically different than the synoptic gospels (Matthew, Mark and Luke).  Instead of ...

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