Created for her in 1972, the pen remains a best-seller more than five decades later.

For Bethany Collins, Herman Melville’s novel is rife with centuries-old political anxieties that still resonate today.

Jailed during the 2021 coup in Myanmar, American journalist Danny Fenster spent six months as a political prisoner. For much of his incarceration he battled boredom and fear, subsisting on meditation ...