The cold war was built on assumptions that Americans and Russians lived opposite lives. ‘What if that was a lie?’ the Irish ...

Ciriaco Mattei, a wealthy Roman nobleman and a friend of the painter, commissioned several masterpieces from Caravaggio, ...

A record-breaking exhibition in Rome celebrates an artist who refused to live in the shadow of Leonardo, Michelangelo and ...

In Havana, Lewis tracked down Ernest Hemingway, then 60, and at the peak of his fame. He found the writer in his pyjamas, ...

“Moral ambition is the will to make the world a wildly better place,” writes Bregman, “to devote your working life to the ...

In dire straits, as he often was, James Joyce latched on to a casual remark from his sister Eva, who was visiting her brother ...

This is an alderfly, which is usually found resting in large numbers on waterside vegetation or flying, rather weakly, on ...

The author’s finest to date raises questions regarding our obligations to the environment and accountability for ancestors’ ...

The writer on the necessity of humour amid bleakness, how she likes to challenge her readers, and misogyny in the North ...

Israel’s Long War on Palestine by Avi Shlaim; Catastrophe: Nakba II by Fintan Drury; and The Gaza Catastrophe: The Genocide ...

A lack of sleep devours my bed. It feeds on dreams until I choke. It sours the insides of my head. It turns me into ash and ...

Méabh Ní Fhuartháin brings subtlety and depth to her appraisal of the Fleadh’s progression from grassroots organisation to ...