Readers respond to a guest essay about the religious feelings inspired by Fra Angelico’s painting. Also: Down times at the movies.

At the heart of alchemy was the quest to turn ordinary metals into gold. Despite the hopelessness of that goal, alchemists ...

Somewhere between deadlines and the daydreams of childhood, I lost my love for writing; but I rediscovered it just when I ...

In 1969, the longtime foreign correspondent recalled a youthful adventure in which she moved to China, keen on becoming an ...