The reliably accomplished John Niven’s latest novel is The Fathers (Canongate), a witty account of parenthood and masculinity ...

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Death does not kill alone/Nor does he fight singly/He goes to war with plenty of warriors…/He sends Disease first/He sends ...

The legendary Macedonian King Alexander III, famously known as Alexander the Great (who was educated by the titanic Greek ...

At the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., stands a 46-inch-tall model of an American icon – the Statue of ...

The lines above are from Professor Bade Ajuwon’s, ‘Ogun’s Iremoje: A Philosophy of Living and Dying’, taken from Sandra ...

Had Oliver Wendell Holmes not felt the patriotic pride that led to his writing of this inspiring poem, the USS Constitution ...

Declan Lynch’s celebration of John Giles and his view that the RTÉ panel were the best on the planet (‘Thank you, John Giles, for putting brains over banter’, June 29) took me back to 2002, when my ...

Kes (1969) meets Night of the Living Dead (1968) in Danny Boyle and Alex Garland’s 28 Years Later, a tense and surprisingly ...