When decking the halls, tables and more, bright hues of blue and silver along with eco-friendly materials are the new trend, but will holiday shoppers change their traditions?

When it comes to decorations, you can show a little less decorum by giving rein to creative impulses with edgy tinsel and baubles as well as wooden trees

Everything’s on the table for city in this time of transition, says Chinese-Canadian author who taught in Hong Kong for five years and calls herself a reluctant commentator on Chinese affairs

The Tony Award-winning director talks about growing up speaking another language and discovering a playwright whose The Beauty Queen of Leenane she brings to the Lyric Theatre

Madeleine Thien and Krys Lee head a line-up of more than 60 writers from China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Canada, Ireland, the UK, France and Brazil

In defiance of official orders, Chiune Sugihara, of the Japanese consulate in Lithuania, risked his career to save the lives of Jews fleeing from the Nazis in 1940

As the only member of her family to survive Auschwitz, the 87-year-old author talks to Liana Cafolla about loss and the tragedy of war.