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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HOD HASHARON, Israel  - Scientists in Israel are reaching deeper into the minds of the clinically depressed to try to lift their spirits.
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âWoman on the Beachâ is a bittersweet accounting of the geography of desire.
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Trying to make sense of what is left behind envelops "Dying City," Christopher Shinn's remarkable tale of loss and how two very different people handle their grief.
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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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Every so often, nature reminds humans why we once feared it. And once in a while, we remember in turn what makes us human. In the terrible wake of the tsunamis in Southeast Asia--so vast their counterparts
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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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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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For five years, Paul James hitched,  trekked and drove to get away from his native West Africa. He  survived the Sahara, begged on the streets of Morocco and  crossed the Mediterranean in a rubber dinghy to reach what he  thought was the promised land.
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Another year, another opportunity to reflect and look forward.
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How a hurt feline brought present and past together.
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From activists to tycoons, politicians to inventors, these remarkable people offer hope for the future
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Susan Lampert Smith Wisconsin State Journal With so many large tragedies going on in the world, it&#39;s easier to comprehend the small sadness of change.
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MY father died while planning his last trip home. An Irish emigrant who had gone to the New World, he suffered the usual homesickness, a homesickness that became more compelling with each passing year.
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Forty years later, defeats and disappointments continue to shape the lives of Palestinians and Israelis
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When civilization falls, does it make a sound? Two books about the end of worlds--and what follows
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&quot;A Promise to the Dead:  The Exile Journey of Ariel Dorfman&quot; starts with a reminder that  the terrorist attacks of 2001 were not the first time that the  date of September 11 was burned into a nation&#39;s collective  memory.