More broadly, the sermon speaks of humility in an unusual fashion, comparing powerful, plundering men to wolves and deceitful ...

Throughout history, love has been able to move empires, inspire immortal works, and sometimes lead people to gestures that ...

A medieval literary puzzle which has stumped scholars, including M.R. James for 130 years has finally been solved. Cambridge ...

After baffling scholars for over a century, Cambridge researchers have reinterpreted the long-lost Song of Wade, revealing it to be a chivalric romance rather than a monster-filled myth. The twist ...

The Song of Wade was hugely popular throughout the Middle Ages. For several centuries, its central character remained a major romance hero, among other famous knights such as Lancelot and Gawain.

Contemporary artists are co-opting the visual tropes of romantic rural scenes and bringing them to uncanny new ends in the ...

"As I was growing up, I began to be attracted to a certain kind of man," Lucinda Williams once wrote, "and I would maintain ...

The novelist on her unclassifiable new work, “The Möbius Book”; the limits of autobiography; and the appeal of multiplicity.

Michael Madsen, a prolific character actor best known for his frequent appearances in Quentin Tarantino films, died Thursday ...

Dense with tall, light-swallowing spruce trees and rooted in sodden, fertile ground, the Šumava Forest along the Czech-German ...

The world of India’s new masters in politics, business and media is no longer framed in English. A bit of a recently made ...