In 1943 Ian Buruma’s father, a university student, found himself in an already battered Berlin among thousands of forced ...

In “Five Bridges,” one of the most topical and light-hearted short stories in Colm Tóibín’s compelling third collection, a lonely Irish plumber has been living in northern California on a tourist visa ...

In a report published earlier this month, “The Turning Tide?”, Stephen Bullivant and I examined multiple datasets, including ...

Frank Dikötter has been described as “the historian of China”, and one can see why. His previous books offer powerful and incisive analysis of the Mao years ...

The Catholic Bishops of Scotland told MSPs they had “taken the correct and responsible course of action” after they voted ...

Hotel Lutetia in Paris, the only really grand hotel on the Left Bank, was one such: the neutral stage on which prominent pre-war German exiles, German wartime ...

Back in the Golden Eighties, Milan Kundera was the hottest writer on the planet, The Unbearable Lightness of Being a huge critical and commercial success. It ...

History teaches two lessons. First, that well entrenched rulers can repress opposition and prevent rebellion if they are ...

I have written a book about how overthrowing capitalism is more important than giving up chocolate, and because I am a nun ...

In many ways, St Óscar Romero had a spectacularly positive vision for human life. He knew God’s presence, he saw the ...

The groundbreaking English translation of the New Testament by William Tyndale – an enterprise that influenced every other ...

In May 2016, the International Union of Superiors General (UISG), the leadership group of heads of women’s religious ...