Everything centers on life and death. Not one moment arises where we are not in life, or pondering about what happens at death. One leads to the other. One stem

Life-expectancy worldwide is twice what it was a hundred years ago. And because of modern medicine, many of us don't often see death up close. That makes it eas

In Hope, Not Fear Benjamin Blech helps readers approach the end of life with calm. More than six years ago Blech was diagnosed with a fatal illness and given si

Winner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, Priyanka Champaneri’s transcendent debut novel brings us inside India’s holy city of Banaras,

[This] is the ... account of one man's descent into hell after dying from a gunshot wound in the head in March of 1992, and the true ... prayer by his newly-wed