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On the ceiling of the chapel where the cardinals elected Pope Leo XIV is Michelangelo’s kaleidoscopic signifier of a time ...

On Friday 9 May 2025, in a packed hall at the Greek Union of Editors of Daily Press, the presentation of the new book by ...

Mythophiles will find Baer and McLaughlin’s work fascinating and captivating. Lewy’s direction is crisp. Their pacing moves the plot along effortlessly. Strom, Baer, Ferrari, and Lantsberger’s offer ...

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Houghton Hall, in Norfolk, was commissioned by the first British Prime Minister, Sir Robert Walpole with its sumptuous ...

But you go back to Greek mythology, and when you are touched ... while you’ve jettisoned the portrait of the universe, the metaphysical structure that gives them meaning. I think it’s really ...

Our understanding of who we are, our place in the world, and the very nature of our being is an intricate tapestry woven from ...

Rana Mehboob’s Sidh Gulal blends folklore, philosophy and political critique to re-imagine native-ness in the subcontinent ...

the metaphysical, is important: the significance of absence, of what is missing. In Judaism – only in Judaism – the material and the spiritual are joined. In Greek, Western, thought there is ...

Summer is, perhaps counterintuitively, the season when many of us find ourselves with our nose constantly in a book. Warm ...