From the statue of Kimi-chan, if you walk up Daikoku-zaka Street, you'll find the Azabu Hikawa Shrine, where Rei (a.k.a.

It should have been a moment of relief. On Sunday afternoon, June 1, before the start of a Jewish holiday, Rabbi Caryn Aviv ...

Hugh, as friends called him, was the youngest of several literary siblings. A pair of brothers, E.F. and A.C. Benson, wrote novels and poetry but today are best known for their ghost stories, ...

A key milestone in his writing career came with his second book, Mahakavya Shivpratap, a 600-page epic poem on Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj. The preface ... Unlike in English writing, there ...

By Uditha Devapriya The Martin Wickramasinghe Collection at the National Library in Colombo contains over 5,000 books. Most ...

Concerts are also transforming tourism trends across the globe. An estimated 2.5 million people created ‘mayhem’ at Brazil’s iconic Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro as Lady Gaga sang ...

Here are my 10 favorite books of all time: - A Treatise of Human Nature - Anathem - Confessions - The Intellectual Life - After Virtue - The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - Blood ...

(Mainichi/Ayane Matsuyama) TOKYO -- Prophecies of disaster written in a 1999 manga book, with no scientific backing, are affecting travel to Japan among Hong Kongers as word of the predictions ...

In 1935, she achieved prominence by publishing her first novel, The Field of Life and Death, which featured a preface by renowned writer Lu Xun (1881-1936), solidifying her position in the ...

It's a place that literary lovers know very well and keep returning to time and time again and now a 'magical' book shop in a Northumberland town rated as one of the best places to live in the UK ...

Travelers can choose the theme of the trip, from romantic getaway to outdoor adventure, as well as the travel dates, but the rest of the details are a surprise. How adventurous do you think you ...