While every interstellar traveler knows that the most massively useful item you can have with you is a towel, placing a Babel Fish in your ear, where it can translate foreign languages for you, is a ...

I was humbled with struggles of publishing a book to lackluster response. Akin to the Tower of Babel, we should learn to let our vanity projects collapse.

HE calls it “the trilogy in my trilogy,” but Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu isn’t just playing a clever numbers game. Do the math: The Mexican director’s new film, “Babel,” like his breakout hit “Amores ...

Reading Genesis to this point, one thing should stand out: the unity of the human family. Indeed, humanity is presented as a family that, as sin increasingly pervades the picture, is more and more a ...

For centuries, people have used mythology to try to make sense of the fact that the people of the world speak so many different languages. One example of the origin story of the "confusion of tongues" ...

The lavish trappings of many top-flight footballers have been well documented – flash cars, state-of-the-art houses, glistening watches and bejeweled jewelry. Like many of his peers, Dutch ...

Almost three quarters of a century after it was published, Jorge Luis Borges’ “The Library of Babel” continues to resonate. A year and a half ago, the online magazine Places Journal published a set of ...