Although I always thank God for my wife, it is when we make love that I feel closest to her and to God. Rabbi Israel Ba’al Shem Tov, the founder of the Hassidic movement, said (in Zava’at ha-Riva’sh), ...

We've got the perfect reads for those who prefer their romance with a side of chills, thrills and even a little trauma.

Wesley Hill’s small volume about Easter is a beautiful and useful invitation to be shocked anew by the central event of our faith.

Will Smith got the internet buzzin’ when he posted a video suggesting that he could be in a new The Matrix project. We eventually learned that his tease was for “Beautiful Scars, a new song and music ...

Big Sean plays the Morpheus role, which was played in the movies by Laurence Fishburne, while Smith takes on Neo. Smith ...

It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.

Or barely scratching the surface of that TBR? Whatever your book situation so far this year, there's a great new selection of novels out this February to fill your Goodreads with or get you out of ...

Will Smith and Big Sean are teaming up for their “Beautiful Scars” single later this week, and they raised hype around the track with a cinematic trailer turning back the clock. Smith and Sean ...

Yet the most beautiful moment comes when you see the illuminated statue of Jesus behind St. Louis Cathedral. His hands are outstretched, offering an embrace to all. He embraces the Quarter ...

Sohini’s debut book, “This Beautiful, Ridiculous City,” is an ode to the place that shaped and saved her. The graphic memoir shows New York as a muse, a mystical place where the lore of the ...

Some scars come from small childhood falls, others are the traces of great adventures or memories of visits to the hospital. Except that, let's be honest, we never really talk about them. Worse, we ...