The Exchange, the Weekly’s poetry corner, offers our thoughts in exchange for yours. The Weekly’s poetry corner, where a poem or piece of writing is presented with a prompt. Readers are welcome to ...

Louvenia Jenkins was one of the first African American women to own a home in the Pacific Palisades. She lost her home of 60 ...

Renowned poet Adil Jussawalla says Learn balance with nothing to stand on though you ve lost heart lost ground Go rootless homeless but balance Yin and yang positive and negative day and night in beau ...

A powerful list of books that influenced Jane Goodall’s journey—each title shaped her thoughts on animals, science, justice, ...

A sudden darkness and the rumble of thunder jolted Victor awake from his afternoon nap. He had indulged in a deep slumber after enjoying a special Sunday lunch. The betel nuts he had placed outside to ...

Thomas Hardy’s marriage to Emma Gifford went from romantic to estranged, and yet he was grief-stricken when she died.

Fatma Hassona, the Palestinian protagonist of Sepideh Farsi’s “Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk” – selected for Cannes’ ...

AT SOUTHWELL MINSTER, there are remarkable Stations of the Cross sculpted out of steel by Jonathan Clarke. The Ninth Station is that of Jesus falling for the third time. It looks as if Jesus is being ...

Aliya Mushtaq Baba's Ode to Silence marks an arresting and thoughtful debut in the world of contemporary poetry, one that is deeply attuned to the inner landscapes of womanhood, the eloquence of ...

Justice P V Kunhikrishnan told the husband, Thevan, that in his old age, his only strength will be his wife, Kunjali. The judge also quoted a verse from a Malayalam poem by N N Kakkad.