True Grit, the latest film from Joel and Ethan Coen, is a stylish Western, a fast-moving revenge story, and a worthy companion to both the Charles Portis novel on which it's based and the other movie ...

From Iceland to India, from prehistoric cave paintings and fertility figurines to such modern-day""myths"" as the invisible hand, the Oedipal conflict and Schrodinger's cat, Leeming's intriguing ...

In her speech at the opening of the Myths and Tales of Cyprus Exhibition at the European Parliament in Strasbourg to mark the start of Cyprus’ presidency of the EU Council the Director of the Press ...

I read George Eliot’s “Middlemarch,” sometimes hailed as the greatest British novel, in a rain forest in western Indonesia. I was there as a graduate student, spending my days slogging through mud and ...

You may have heard of the Grinch, the dastardly Yin to Santa’s benevolent Yang, but there are some strange Christmas traditions in Europe that might have slipped off your radar. Here are five of our ...