Dealing with death is difficult, be it the death of a close relative or thoughts of your own mortality. Dying is an inevitable outcome of being human, but knowing that does not make most people happy.

Death stalks the pages of Salman Rushdie’s latest book, The Eleventh Hour, and it’s there in the first story in this collection. “They were eighty-one years old,” he writes. “If old age was thought of ...

Let’s call it the human guessing game. There comes a point in life when we find ourselves playing it whether we want to or not. Hallelujah for a sense of humor. It gives (temporary) relief from the ...