The holiest day in the Jewish calendar is Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, with its theme of repentance. And one of the synagogue readings for Yom Kippur is the Book of Jonah (in Hebrew, sefer Yonah) ...

He is the third-most-widely read poet in history, after Shakespeare and Lao-tzu. He was a New Yorker and an Arab American. His writing has influenced song lyrics, novels and speeches, and inspired ...

Bringing a book of serious-minded prose poetry to the screen isn't the easiest thing to pull off in this age of escapist superhero movies, but "The Prophet" isn't just any book. Continually in print ...

In 1916, Alfred A. Knopf, then 23 and a newcomer to the book-publishing business, was introduced to a Lebanese artist-poet in a Greenwich Village cafe. Knopf had never heard of Kahlil Gibran, but his ...

Particularly striking is her choice of working only in black and white, letting both the poetry and her art speak for themselves in their rawest forms Gibran's classic delves deep into the human ...

The notion that a single idea or story could impact lives in such powerful ways, such as determining the course of one’s direction in life, is really quite beautiful. Perhaps that is the writer in me ...

This past March, at the New York International Children’s Film Festival, Roger Allers, the director of "The Lion King," cheerfully answered kids’ questions about his newest movie, which had just had ...