Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A deed to land that was owned by the author's grandfather, superimposed over an image of the high-rise building on that site in ...

New York subscribers got exclusive early access to this story in our Brooding newsletter. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. I am not a very sentimental person. After my mother died, I went into ...

The French psychoanalyst Nicolas Abraham wrote that some of us are haunted by “the gaps left within us by the secrets of others.” Growing up as a Ukrainian American, I felt these gaps myself. My ...

The first time I held the black-and-white photograph of my mother feeding my father a piece of their cake at their wedding in 1949, I was hooked. Right then I knew I was destined to be a keeper — a ...

My father, Jawdat Bseiso, was 23 when everything changed. As the favorite son of Mahrous Mustafa Bseiso — one of the largest landowners in southern Palestine — he was being groomed to inherit our ...

My father, Jawdat Bseiso, was 23 when everything changed. As the favorite son of Mahrous Mustafa Bseiso — one of the largest landowners in southern Palestine — he was being groomed to inherit our ...