Feeling stressed? Nerves a bit jangled? Then pick up a pen and pencil, and untangle with Zentangle. A pen, pencil and coaster-sized paper tile are the basic tools used to create this meditative art ...

Flight delays bring out the worst in some people. But travel disruptions don’t bother Hongkonger Cindy Chan. She sees them as a chance to create a Zentangle, a relaxing doodle technique based on ...

Marlon James focuses on the social transformation of Jamaica. Photo / Jeffrey Skemp Brief? Irony, not misrepresentation. Anyone picking up the Jamaican writer Marlon James's third novel already knows ...

About five years ago, Kristin Kennedy was doing her meditation practice when she began to integrate art into her approach. “I used pictures and then tangles in the art form and turned them into note ...

"Pray and let God worry." That's Cindy Fahs' philosophy. The only problem was she couldn't quiet her mind to pray. "The next thing I knew I was thinking, 'The boys have baseball practice.' It got all ...

October is an ideal excuse to dim the lights, pour something warm (or red) and dive into stories that tangle mystery with menace. This month’s picks span the eerie, the emotional and the downright ...

MITTEE (312 pp.)—Daphne Rooke—Houghton, Mifflin ($3). The U.S. South used to be the main source of the world’s supply of fiction plots about the clash of white and Negro; in the last dozen years, ...

One of the first clues that “A Tangle of Knots” by Lisa Graff (Philomel Books) was going to be an unusual story was the revelation in the first pages that some people are Talented, with a capital “T.” ...

Opening with a fiddle-driven two-stepper, Scott Cook’s seventh “love letter” to the world is all strings and beauty, a 12-song agnostic endorsement of love over fear. And we’ll get to the music in a ...