Recently, we asked IJ readers to share their hopes and dreams for 2026. Here’s what they had to say. Another year to learn ...

With its dramatic and scenic landscapes, Cape Town is a dream destination to pop the question. You can go big on a mountaintop, keep it sweet and lowkey on a beach with penguins, or make it timeless ...

The use of blessed oil has long been an established practice in the Eastern Christian tradition and continues to this day.

Do you ever catch yourself saying, “That’s just my luck”, “I never find the right partner” or “Bad things always happen to me ...

When John Harbaugh, a Super Bowl-winning head coach with 12 playoff appearances in 18 years as head coach of the Baltimore ...

The RZA executive produced Joanna Natasegara's Sundance-premiering film tells the strange story of a dogged outsider and a controversial album.

Her latest, "The Ring of a Bell," features a teenage boy, while earlier works had adult male and female protagonists.

Itab Azzam and Jack MacInnes's patiently observed documentary 'One in a Million' follows young Syrian refugee Israa from the ...

These two books arrive from opposite ends of the literary map -- one a medieval biography structured around a contemporary walk through England, the other a late entry in a long-running urban fantasy ...

Janet Rich Edwards brings historical acuity and imaginative sensitivity to Canticle, a debut novel and work of historical ...

In The Night Manager Season 2, Jonathan Pine and Richard Roper find themselves evenly matched after a decade of haunting each ...

Do you have Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Dream Count? He didn’t and had finally moved on, half-disappointed. And now here he was happily displaying what I had requested, sure of a sale. Shrink-wrapped, ...