Tidy stories reducing the atrocity to a clash of civilizations or a problem with integration are neither enlightening nor satisfying.

The Childhood of Jesus explores the fictitious dimensions of a just and compassionate world.

Joseph Anton is a tale of betrayals: of free speech, communities, religion, marriages, personal convictions, friends.

Assailed by the right as a fiction, anti-Muslim bias is all too real for those who live with it.

Behind the Beautiful Forevers is a superb, empathic account of life in a Mumbai undercity.

In Assumption a murder mystery becomes a lesson in how much we do not know.

The king says his realm is a beacon of liberalism, but the people demand bread, and roses too. 

What the debate over terrorists seems to miss is the personal dimension: personal failures and personal grievances of the lone gunmen.

The young people protesting in Arab capitals right now want a meaningful break with the status quo and, in many ways, that means a break from American support.

A Moroccan single mother has earned the sad distinction of being the first Arab woman to commit political self-immolation.