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) ...

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 ...

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 ...