Sylvia Plath lived a tragically short life ... “I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree,” she writes in the novel in a beloved section. “One fig was a husband and a happy home ...

Nevertheless, the idea of deadlines as a self-esteem booster is neither the only perspective there is, nor the culturally ...

Pruning a fig tree annually is the gardener's secret to maintaining a happy and healthy tree. It promotes fruit production and new growth, keeps the tree at a manageable size, and enhances overall ...

This slow burn thriller from Iran exposes the brutality of authoritarianism and its devastating impact on families.

Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof is now an Oscar-nominated refugee, in a bittersweet harvest for his film The Seed of the ...

"The Mirror," a poem by Sylvia Plath, is about a woman looking in the mirror and evaluating the image she sees there. In the poem, Plath explores the mirror image as a doorway to the unconscious ...

‘Submission to power is complex, it depends on other people submitting to power, and it has deep roots.’ Ficus religiosa, the sacred fig tree, grows on other trees before plunging its roots into the ...

Soheila Golestani, the Iranian actor who stars in Mohammad Rasoulof’s Oscar-nominated drama “The Seed of the Sacred Fig,” has been banned from leaving Iran to serve on the Tiger Competition ...