A woman struggles to come to terms with her mother’s newfound happiness while her own life falls apart in Xie’s funny and sharp debut. Kathleen Cheng has just been dumped by her boyfriend, prompting ...

An Edinburgh art gallery has announced details of a new exhibition of work from Scottish artist Jenny Martin RSW, an Edinburgh-based painter and printmaker. Patterns of Life opens in Morningside ...

Ashbourne native Jenny Lehane has made a winning start at the Olympic boxing qualification tournament in Bangkok. The primary school teacher beat Angelyris Lopez from Puerto Rico on a majority 4-1 ...

In a world of chaos and uncertainty, books can serve as beacons of hope — offering solace, inspiration and the promise of brighter days ahead. Certain accounts can help us turn the page during life’s ...

Mark Darrell’s life began to unravel on a Tuesday morning in September, 2004, in Anbar Province. A marine staff sergeant, a steady, seventeen-year veteran with only a week to go in his Iraq rotation, ...

There's only so many things we can handle at once but eight hula hoops on fire is enough for Grace Good to manage. Good, 30, is joining the 2024 group of Guinness World Record holders for setting the ...

When Jenny Xie visited Los Angeles recently to discuss her debut novel, “Holding Pattern,” it was a homecoming of sorts. A Shanghai native, Xie moved to the U.S. with her family as a young child, and ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Jenny Xie about her first novel, Holding Pattern. It takes a familiar story — a young adult who decides to move home — and flips it on its head. It's a familiar ...