Thus I learn my destiny. I will never leave this city. I will return to this street and find a house here and adopt children as beautiful as these ones, or as beautiful as these spirits, it doesn't ...

The writing of a memoir — especially one subtitled “A True Love Story” — presents an inherent challenge: the author’s self-revelation risks devolving into rank confession and undermining the larger ...

What is it like to live in a society where you are muzzled, where everything you say is overheard and reported? Told from the perspective of artists, musicians and other performers who are trying to ...

Karen Connelly was deemed something of a prodigy in 1993, when, at age 24, she won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Touch the Dragon: A Thai Journal. Connelly has continued to astound, most ...

A Burmese proverb, 'Only with a new ruler do you realize how good the old one was,' highlights a common human tendency to ...