November stands as a quiet bridge between autumn’s golden farewell and winter’s silver silence. It is a month of reflection, ...

I must start at the start, at the white page in my mind,” Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin wrote in Borders, from The Girl Who Married the Reindeer (2001), and throughout her New Selected Poems (Gallery, ...

The poems are a study of human nature, its evolution and devolution, and the complexities that we create by ignoring the simple story of nature.

Other than being a ‘Trojan Horse’ alien spaceship set to release probes to study our planet, or crashing into Earth, neither ...

The Day of the Dead – El Día de los Muertos – in Spanish is a Mexican celebration of deceased ancestors. Multi-coloured ...

China’s leader draws on lessons from Lin Zexu, a Qing official whose defiance of Britain led to China’s humiliating defeat ...

Mary O’Malley has won the 2025 Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry. Her collection The Shark Nursery (Carcanet, 2024) was ...

From animated gems like Princess Mononoke to dark fairy tales like Pan's Labyrinth, these fantasy movies are so great that they become transcendental.

Canada’s anti-tariff ad was an incursion in the trade war, but there’s another reason it may have bothered Trump.

After seven unforgettable years in Ghana, Lebanon’s Ambassador and Dean of the Diplomatic Corps, Maher Kheir, prepares to close a chapter written in the language of friendship, rhythm, and poetry.

We’ve all been there, you scroll through social media, see that unreal sunset over a glittering lagoon, and immediately think ...

Richard Rohr begs readers to journey from anger to sadness to compassionate love.