Aminata Sy, now 44, was determined to help lift her family economically, and in 2022 began her career as a U.S. diplomat in ...

The late John Steinbeck’s literature is not just a critical part of the American literary canon, but intrinsic to American identity itself. With every deeply relatable, ordinary protagonist, Steinbeck ...

In his 2024 book “Wisdom of the Dying,” Abbasi discusses his and his patients’ experiences during the height of the COVID-19 ...

Penelope spends most of the 24 books of Homer’s “Odyssey” waiting. While her husband, Odysseus, spends two decades fighting ...

Elisa Gabbert’s collections of poetry and essays include, most recently, “Normal Distance” and “Any Person Is the Only Self.” Her On Poetry columns appear four times a year.

Odyssey can end (more specifically, nine ways its cultist plot can end). Which one you receive is determined by how many of ...