Today is the shortest day of the year, also known as the winter solstice. The solstice marks the start of winter in astronomical terms, where the start of seasons is determined by the tilt of the ...

June's writer-curator for Something I Heard, Anthony Doerr, reads a poem by Charles Simic, simply titled, "Stone." ...

Our myths turn long nights into evergreen cut on grocery store parking lots, a continent away from thousands of reindeer starving as the Arctic ice dissolves. Only one star guides the way out to ...

An excerpt of the poem “Shortest Day” by Susan Cooper ... Shutterstock If we conceive of the winter solstice as the spiritual beginning of a new year, we can get right with that energy ...

Susan Cooper’s children’s book The Shortest Day, released in 2019, is a celebration of light returning after the winter solstice. The text of the book is actually a poem she wrote in the 1970s ...

In the bustling markets of Tehran, the capital of Iran, people prepare for Shab-e Yalda, an ancient celebration of the winter solstice marked by storytelling, poetry, and seasonal foods that ...