Arts, Culture & Media

Barbecue recipes — Asian-style

Food

In a new book, Chef Hugh Mangum — based in Los Angeles, with contributions from Chef May Chow in Hong Kong — compiles barbecue recipes with flavors from around the world. They shared a couple recipes with The World.

‘Objects hold energy’: Author posits that British Museum in London is full of ghosts

Conflict & Justice

The most popular foreign playwright in Russia is Irish

Immersive shrine installation comes with chanting and controversy

Sacred Nation

Meet the 80-year-old woman who repairs Mexico City’s iconic hand-cranked organs

Music

In Damascus, stand-up comedians test the limits under a new government

Syria

Comedians in Syria see a new moment for their art form. With the regime that stifled dissent under former President Bashar al-Assad gone, they have been putting together performances at cafes and clubs across Damascus and telling jokes that were previously unthinkable.

A family remembers a relative who died in the Holocaust with a ‘stumbling stone’ in her German hometown

Sacred Spaces

David Bliss grew up hearing stories about his great-aunt Bertha, a once-energetic woman who ran her own shop in the small German town of Husen. But he knew very little else about her until he found a high school in Husen, which for decades has had students research the lives of Holocaust victims. Bliss’ journey to memorialize his great-aunt unearthed debates about such memorials in Germany, including those over the Stolperstein, or “Stumbling Stone” project. Rebecca Rosman traveled to Husen and Munich to tell this story.

Photos: Syrian photographer documents loss and rebirth in the country following the fall of Assad  

Alaa Hassan’s project, “Vital Signs,” shows a country in transition.

‘Four Mothers’ examines motherhood across the globe

Books

In her new book, “Four Mothers: An Intimate Journey Through the First Year of Parenthood in Four Countries,” journalist Abigail Leonard explores the experience of parenting across different cultures. She joins The World’s host, Carol Hills, to share what she witnessed.

The tug-of-war over an anti-Nazi pastor’s legacy

Global Politics

US Christian nationalists have adopted a leading pastor of the anti-Nazi resistance as a patron saint of faith-based politics, setting off a bitter, trans-Atlantic feud and the question, “What would Dietrich Bonhoeffer do?”