“On a farm you live around death your whole life,” says one of the characters in Jon Clinch’s mesmerizing novel “Kings of the Earth”; it’s a plainspoken statement that sums up the book — and a way of ...

“Many objects from the primitive tribes were left with my late brother (Abdollah), after his death, and they are supposed to be sent from Chile to Iran to be added to the Omidvar Brothers’ Museum in ...