In the Guinness Storehouse on Tuesday night, they celebrated their 25th birthday with a party. And a fine party it was, ...
After decades of teaching girls the structure and subtleties of fiction and poetry at Stuart Country Day School in Princeton, ...
Enigmatic ol’ Ezra Pound. Years after crafting the lines from Hugh Selwyn Mauberley quoted above, he found himself distinctly ...
Eighty-four years have passed since his death, but there are still ample photographs of Rabindranath Tagore that are not in ...
What should have been the peak of the sculptor’s career was doomed to coincide with what the Chinese call interesting times ...
The Irish singer's festive track was ignored when it was first released 50 years ago – now it's his most recognised song ...
Shakespeare got it wrong. The good that men do is not really “interred with their bones,” as he lamented in “Julius Caesar.” Instead, it follows them long after, inspiring all ...
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Flying coffins

IT takes courage to fly, whether as a pilot (or as a passenger) in a metal coffin, assembled, as the astronaut Alan Shepherd put it, “from hundreds of parts supplied by the lowest bidder”.
The Celts believed that all trees were sacred; each had a special curative property or spiritual significance. Among our ...
Enjoy magical music mixes, special guest takeovers, and engaging story-telling this Christmas on BBC Radio and BBC Sounds ...
Australian artist Michael Zavros created his latest exhibition while navigating major life changes.
Lately, I’ve been fascinated by the concept of awe. While the subject has been explored extensively by philosophers and ...