Obeyesekere joined Princeton’s faculty in 1980 and transferred to emeritus status in 2000. He chaired the anthropology ...

These books confront readers with the recent past and distant future, bring them to southeastern Africa and an alternative Japan, and bedeck their pages with subversive cartoons and lush landscapes.

Trump’s war on America’s racial history has claimed my book as a casualty — ironically, a best-seller that conservatives ...

Acknowledging it is crucial to a more honest reckoning with the past and a more just moral stance in the present ...

Unable to afford textbooks while growing up on Japan’s northwest coast, Yoko Breckenridge would borrow them from friends and copy each chapter by hand. Breckenridge, who married an American soldier ...

Art fellows with The AjA Project explore displacement and silencing in their new exhibit on the history of Japanese American ...

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

Is Agatha “a crazy woman, haphazardly but unmistakably drifting down and out, sick, unemployed, drunk, obsessed with solving ...

In a new book titled “Integral Transhumanism,” Spanish priest Ricardo Mejía Fernández examines the transhumanist movement.

True Religion’s distinctive, $400 jeans were everywhere in 2005: in paparazzi shots of early reality stars Paris Hilton and Jessica Simpson, lyrics of “My Humps” by the Black Eyed Peas ...

The others involve religious objections to books read in public schools and public funding for religious schools. The charities don’t qualify for the tax exemption because the day-to-day services it ...

Buddhism has also experienced significant losses in some regions. In Japan, 23% of adults who were raised Buddhist no longer identify with any religion, while in South Korea, 13% of adults have ...