Watching my father survive a public professional humiliation taught me far more than any of his successes

At a restaurant in Laos, Richard Sterling challenges a Frenchman in a restaurant to an unusual culinary duel -- eating deep-fried potato bugs. Excerpted from 'Travelers' Tales: There's No Toilet Paper ... on the Road Less Traveled.'

"What would happen if I didn't do the treatment?" my father asked the oncologist

First-time director Mark Hanlon may have watched "Eraserhead" too many times, but he sure knows how to sustain a mood.

Doctors called my dad the "Miracle Man" when cancer didn't kill him. But then he needed something to help him live

Describing radical extremists and insurrectionists as "conservative" is an insult to Orwell — and reality

In which the kingdom of grinning death is found to be a very suspicious polling place.

80 years ago, Nazis marched into Prague. Like many Jews, our fathers became refugees

"Django Unchained" has action, comedy, fake history and oceans of blood -- but it's an endless, undisciplined mess

My father fled North Korea as a child. When he returned, he found a home he couldn't belong to anymore

Drop those spareribs, imperialist pig-eaters! A new book argues that the great American barbecue smolders on the coals of genocidal racism.

I wondered if I was doing something crazy, trying to fix all the things he had broken

I know I should say those sordid hours were a waste of time. Instead, they were the happiest days of my life

When I became the guardian of a frightened, dependent being, I vowed to parent differently than I'd been parented

Today my father's name is on a plaque outside the physics department room where he and his colleagues were killed