Richard Flanagan is drowning. Trapped in a kayak, wedged underwater, he sips from a pocket of air inside the Franklin’s roar.

Chris Bateman worked as a reporter, editor and columnist at The Union Democrat for nearly 40 years. Now semi-retired, he ...

The two longest stories, “The Undefeated” and “Fifty Grand,” and the closing piece, “Now I Lay Me,” are weightier. I ...

We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone — we find it with another.” — Thomas Merton “Twice or thrice had I lov’d thee, / Before I knew thy face or name” — John Donne, “Air and Angels” ...

As New York and Philadelphia became hubs for publishing in the United States, there was a need to sell more books to a ...

Don’t feel guilty or selfish for seeking higher life satisfaction and greater well-being. 2. Bring happiness to others. You are not an island, as the English poet John Donne observed ...

Robert Oppenheimer, director of the Manhattan Project and its top-secret research site at Los Alamos, New Mexico, named the site Trinity after a poem by John Donne ... family life in Los Alamos ...

There is a world of difference between, say, Mexican immigrants searching for a better life and Rwandan refugees ... societies need to recognize that John Donne's reasoning applies on an ...

If the new fall book season looks overwhelming — Al Pacino’s memoirs, and a new Haruki Murakami epic? — if you’re about to ...

The message is everywhere: loneliness is a “modern epidemic”. The news reports make grim reading: nine million British people are lonely, while a third of American citizens suffer from loneliness.

The Human Resolve stated, “The right place for you will always receive and appreciate you in the right way. If they don't ...