This week Ashura ceremonies took place throughout Iran, but the traditional craft behind the metallic ornament is being lost Safar Fooladgar hits a piece of iron the size of my palm with his hammer.

A little more than two years ago, the novelist and critic Rumaan Alam landed a job as the editor of special projects at The New York Times Book Review. It was a dream job — of course it was — and he ...

Rumaan Alam is the mastermind behind the 2020 critically acclaimed novel, Leave the World Behind. The book centers around the Sanford family whose "vacation runs headlong into a moment of global ...

The death of a nearly blind refugee in Buffalo, New York, days after Border Patrol agents dropped him off at a coffee shop alone, has prompted an investigation into the circumstances of his final days ...