Chosen from dozens of Long Island students nominated by their schools, they stood out for their resiliency, work ethic and good nature.

The author has made homes in Arctic Village, Fairbanks and now Sitka and written books covering a number of genres.

Ngũgĩ’s death was confirmed Wednesday by his family, who said he died peacefully with family members by his side. UC Irvine ...

We are Slovak!” my grandfather would yell. Emphatically, my father would bellow back, “We are Rusyn!” And so it went, until ...

AS Marsha put her adopted daughter to bed every night in Texas, she felt peace of mind that she had rescued the toddler from ...

Soul on Fire, the new documentary portrait of the Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Holocaust survivor, and Jewish writer who ...

In a new memoir, a climate scientist reflects on his journey from a rural village in India to the cutting edge of weather forecasting.

A cultural dispute came to symbolize a growing divide in Hamtramck. And it brought about a seismic power shift.

The Village Voice obituary of Tom Robbins, the crime and politics reporter who never shied away from calling out the rich and powerful.

This week’s pick of interesting reads includes a poignant childhood memoir, a tribute to Subhas Chandra Bose first published ...

Group says lives of Tibetan children are ‘irrevocably altered to serve the purposes of the Chinese government’ ...