Emily Conroy-Krutz chronicles the complex relationship between Protestant missionaries and the US Foreign Service in the ...

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A new 223-volume Tibetan dictionary containing definitions of over 300,000 words presented to the Library of Congress last ...

Chakmo Tso is a reporter for Radio Free Asia. A new 223-volume Tibetan dictionary containing definitions of over 300,000 ...

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We refer routinely to “Paul’s Letter to the Philippians” or “the Gospel of Luke,” and most Christians today assume that Paul and Luke were the authors of these works. Countless paintings throughout ...

You say in God’s Ghostwriters that your process as a historian involves reading into the gaps. You call it a form of history telling that is imaginative and not untrue. Why do you approach your ...

A white bat flies into the mango tree. Erratic, it darts through wet leaves and disappears. We are left looking at dangling fruit dancing over the pool. From the rooftop restaurant two terraces above, ...