Movie angels are a curious bunch. Take that malicious crew in The Prophecy series, jealous combatants in Legion (2010), or the unhelpful cherubim in Constantine…

Gunn’s most striking idea is to start his story not at the beginning, but somewhere around the middle, as if this were the third or…

“Par­adise Lost is one of the books which the read­er admires and lays down, and for­gets to take up again,” Samuel John­son wrote in the…

Ever since Donald Trump’s victory in last year’s US presidential election, there has been frantic speculation about what it is the American Right really wants.…

For a long, long time there has been a desire for Christians (not very Jedi of us, is it) to see in the galaxy of…

The exact date the monument went up is contested, but its official centenary was celebrated on 13 July 2023, making it 102 years old this…

This week on arts24, Eve Jackson is in the studio while our reporter Olivia Salazar-Winspear is on the ground at one of the world’s most…

If you want­ed to hear the voice of your favorite writer in the nine­teen-six­ties — a time before audio­books, let alone pod­casts — you con­sult­ed…

The private turned political throughout the ‘intercourse wars’ of the late 1970’s and early 1980’s. With the sexual revolution already underway, Feminism’s second wave introduced…

Jean Purdy steps determinedly through Cambridge’s cobbled streets in smart black shoes and tights, her nose buried in a medical journal. As the historic English…

In the 1950s, Barbie had been tried twice for his war crimes by France and sentenced to death “in absentia”, but by the time the…

More than a few vis­i­tors to Flo­rence make a bee­line to the Gal­le­ria del­l’Ac­cad­e­mia, and once inside, to Michelan­gelo’s David, the most famous sculp­ture in…

In Russian the word for ‘border’, granitsa, carries a range of meanings which blur its definition as a territorial and administrative demarcation line. They include…

Finding some Christian element in such things… equips us to contribute something meaningful to a conversation with others that goes beyond scolding. For a show…

By that measure, All Fours has been an unequivocal success. On July’s Substack page, a community of women have gathered to share not just their…