It is needless to say that fantasy is one of the world’s most popular genres of films and TV shows. Chinese drama makers take this to a whole new level. In C-dramas, there are several segments within ...

Popular Chinese actor Xu Kai has been receiving praise from critics and viewers for his portrayal of Yue Jin Zhao in the ongoing fantasy drama Sword & Fairy 4. The anticipated drama premiered on ...

There are, in English, few ways to talk about sex without using vulgarities, euphemism, or jargon, which presents a problem for translators of ancient love poetry. Enter poet and scholar Economou, who ...

From Temples to Pharaohs, Queens and tombs filled with gold. Come with Curtis Ryan Woodside as we trace though the history spanning over 7 thousand years of ancient Egypt. With special access to tombs ...

We know from the start that it won’t end well. We’re told that this is the story of a woman who wandered naked and insane through the streets of Jerusalem, searching in vain for her lover, and many ...

ON THE WAY OUT, TURN OFF THE LIGHT: Poems, by Marge Piercy. (Knopf, $28.) Piercy’s 20th poetry collection feels like a memoiristic summing up, with reflections on her Detroit childhood and young love ...