Hilary Mantel was one of the great voices of historical fiction – and so much more

Dame Hilary Mantel was a writer of immense skill and originality, and her death represents an incalculable loss to British literature. She will be chiefly remembered...

Inmates’ paintings featured in Pasay trade exhibit

Silence of the poets – has an ancient tradition of commemorative verse died with the Queen?

Not so long ago, the death of a monarch would have been a cue for outpourings of elegies and poetic commemorations. One might have thought the...

These high school ‘classics’ have been taught for generations – could they be on their way out?

If you went to high school in the United States anytime since the 1960s, you were likely assigned some of the following books: Shakespeare’s “Romeo and...

To accurately portray histories, museums need to do more than ‘reimagine’ galleries

There is a wave of change underway in North American museums. Museums and galleries are re-evaluating their own places and roles in colonial history and discourse....

Who is Artemis? NASA’s latest mission to the Moon is named after an ancient lunar goddess turned feminist icon

Artemis I will send a rocket without a crew on a monthlong journey around the Moon. The program aims to increase women’s participation in space exploration...

CCP to be closed for 3 years for renovation, retrofitting

Terrifying dragons have long been a part of many religions, and there is a reason for their appeal

The premiere of HBO’s prequel to “Game of Thrones,” “House of the Dragon” will undoubtedly bring more attention to the ferocious dragon. Two-legged or four, fire-breathing...

Street performers in Montréal are being displaced and excluded

Like many cities around the world, Montréal has embraced busking to generate a sense of friendliness and cultural vibrancy in the city. Once a marginal practice...

Japan’s Obon festival: how family commemoration and ancestral worship shapes daily life

Each year in Japan, people celebrate ohigan, a period of seven days around both the vernal and the autumnal equinoxes, and obon, which stretches over a...