Mr. Pavlov was a poet and screenwriter who became one of Bulgaria’s most prominent intellectuals with his rare defiance of the country’s Communist regime.

Mr. Darwish?s prose gave voice to the Palestinian experience of exile, occupation and infighting.

Mr. Darwish?s prose gave voice to the Palestinian experience of exile, occupation and infighting.

Mr. Darwish?s prose gave voice to the Palestinian experience of exile, occupation and infighting.

A Greek court has dismissed a request by residents of the island of Lesbos to prohibit the use of the word lesbian to describe gay women.

The latest brouhaha involving cultural property is unfolding in Lisbon ? and not, for a change, over stolen vases or precious war booty, but a poet?s correspondence.

A look at Russia?s major artists, writers, musicians and filmmakers in the 20th century.