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Irish writer Eoin Colfer has found great success enchanting readers with the fanciful adventures of Artemis Fowl. His new book The Wish List is about saving souls, cell-phone conversations between St. Peter and Beelzebub, and the online presence of both Heaven and Hell. Frank Browning profiles the writer.

A man learns that there's more to life than sensual pleasure in this extended version of Wagner's opera.

A researcher found that some of them don't want to be "rescued." And that in one community, sex work is a traditional occupation for married women.

Dorothy Flood, now 75, has vivid memories of not being allowed in a train dining car as a young black girl. Now, an organization that grants wishes to seniors has sent Flood on an all-expenses paid trip through the Rocky Mountains, in a gourmet dining car.

Sitting in traffic? Stuck on a plane? Here's a podcast playlist for all your holiday needs, delivered in poem form.

Actor and WWE wrestling icon John Cena has just set a new Guinness World Record for granting 650 wishes through the Make-A-Wish foundation.

The 1960 album, “Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas,” was one of the most celebrated holiday collections of all time. Now, host Vanessa Williams and the…

John Leguizamo's Christmas film, Nothing Like The Holidays, takes on traditional family themes as it spotlights generational differences within a Latino context. The award-winning comedian talks candidly about his career, his family and his identity.

Workers earning the minimum wage in four of the six New England states will see a bit more in their paychecks in 2021. But the gap continues to widen…

Hal Faulkner was kicked out of the Marines in 1956 for homosexuality. He's now terminally ill, and the Marine Corps expedited his dying wish to correct his status to "honorable discharge." Since the Pentagon changed its policy, tens of thousands of gay veterans are navigating a maze of red tape to correct their discharges status and gain access to VA benefits.