(Mainichi/Kazuya Inoue) MIYAMA, Fukuoka -- Among the varieties of fireworks in Japan, traditional handheld sparklers remain popular. Yet there are just three places where they are manufactured in ...

Riad Sattouf’s saga of his parents’ failed bicultural marriage, with its harsh depiction of life in rural Syria, has become a literary sensation. By Richard Fausset Richard Fausset reported ...

Advertisement They are also cartoons. There’s Daniil Medvedev, last year’s finalist, whaling his racket into the net. There’s Madison Keys, this year’s semifinalist, running down a ball ...

The American musical before 1927 had been light stuff—part operetta, part revue—a merry playground for sparklers like George M. Cohan and Cole Porter. Hammerstein and Kern, though, wanted to ...