Tracing a 20-Year Odyssey Across Hope and Despair
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Jonathan Caouette's autobiographical film is one of the strangest and most interesting movies of the year.
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Reader Sunaina Yadav shares her experiences.
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By Joshua Norman, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Sep. 9--Pat Smith died en route to doing what he loved: building hope for people who have little.
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Gideon Mendel's pictures of flooding in east and west reveal striking contrasts and unexpected resonances
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Ayaan Hirsi Aliâs brave and inspiring memoir traces her journey from Mogadishu, Somalia, to the Dutch Parliament and beyond and âfrom the world of faith to the world of reason.â
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The story began 20 years ago in Kenya with one family's grief. It wound halfway around the world, passed through Hollywood and came to a museum in the middle of the U.S.
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Hopeful thoughts, for those of us wriggling in the muck of love.
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By ANNE JOHNSTONE  THE history of life on earth is, in fact, the history of death. About 20 years ago on a press trip to Kenya I spent a night in a leopard hide, a strange Heath-Robinson structure, like a home-made lighthouse in the middle of the Masai Mara.
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ATHENS, Aug. 22 Â The marathon was inspired by suffering, and on the day an event that is as much a test of character as a test of endurance returned to its Olympic roots, the suffering returned, too.
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By Evgeny Morozov  Peeping into the life of a frustrated 16-year-old could not possibly be a gratifying experience. This is a period of life normally to be recycled, forgotten and repressed.
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In the over 20 years I spent in Africa, I saw a lot of desolation and more than enough barren camps erected to house civilians displaced by war and famine.
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Natural disasters invoke a frustrating helplessness: Our despair only deepens as the scope of devastation reveals itself. Americans last experienced nature&#39;s wrath firsthand during the series of hurricanes
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Jia Zhang-ke's film of life in an amusement park is a quietly despairing vision of contemporary China with an almost ethnographic attention to detail.
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In 1942, 8-year-old Moshe Bar-Yuda walked hand-in-hand with his father to a collection point in his hometown in Slovakia and watched him being shipped off to a Nazi labor camp. The boy never saw him again, and for 66 years was left to wonder about his father's fate.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - More than 60 years after the end of World War Two, German author Bernhard Schlink found the time was right to explore the guilt and moral conflicts which were a legacy of his home country's Nazi past.
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Vividly impressionistic and delightfully curious, âPrimo Leviâs Journeyâ retraces the writerâs arduous return from a liberated Auschwitz to his home in Italy.
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Elizabeth Adak Shindu paid a high price to return home. She walked for 30 days, endured hunger and disease and used up the last of her life savings. When she finally reached this sprawling, dusty town, she found another family living on her land.