Joel Edgerton stars in Train Dreams, about an ordinary man in an ordinary life, one of the unsung heroes who built America.

What is the purpose of life? There are as many answers to this age-old question as there are people, and they run the gamut from hopeful to nihilistic to, well, nonexistent. Here are just a few famous ...

It’s a question we all want an answer to: what is the meaning of life? Ann Chadwick spoke to author James Bailey on his ...

We don’t think about death enough. How’s that for an opening sentence? Talk about an invitation to scroll down. Or up. Or anywhere else to avoid reading, and thinking, about death. But here’s my ...

Four years before the Annie Hall actress died at the age of 79 in her native California, she shared with pal Carol Kane what she valued most in her final years. “I value a very strong friendship, like ...