Now, an automated metro-rail glides silently through the city. Conversations have become clipped, calculated. Efficiency replaces spontaneity. They call it peace. Rahim calls it absence.

On my first time out as a commercial fisherman, my boat sank, my captain died, and I was left adrift and alone in the Pacific ...

Most recently, he played Charlie Roth, the main character in the Australian TV drama "Invisible Boys ... Haymitch, who lives in the Seam — the poorest part of District 12 — doesn't like ...