He peppered his homilies, talks and even encyclicals with literary references from Dostoyevsky, Proust, Hopkins, Dante and ...

Convenience stores, ice and whisky first came as U.S. imports. Then, they were reinvented.

In Africa, a person of Pope Francis’ moral caliber and spiritual substance holds the coveted designation of “ancestor,” whose ...

What Flanagan understands is that the real story of America includes the story of slavery. He looked around at all the people ...

The country’s aesthetics and inventions have spread far. It still remains a singular place.

In his criticisms of the church and defiance of traditionalists, Pope Francis continued the legacy of a movement the Vatican ...

The five covers of T’s annual Culture issue — which this year is devoted entirely to Japan and its outsize cultural influence ...

As the Trump administration ramps up attacks on the environment, a new tactic giving legal rights to lakes, rivers, and trees ...

There was a time when Black creatives could simply be grateful for the opportunity to make something, but that wasn’t true ...

I wanted to make a point of placing the monsters within the daily life of Tokyo,” says the photographer Tess Ayano, who spent ...

Fact and fiction circled each other in the works of Mario Vargas Llosa. Through realism, erotica, and even crude slang, the ...

Here and below are some of the Japanese avant-garde designers, photographed for T over the course of a few months, who have ...