The Town of Carrboro has selected Amanda Bennett to be its ninth poet laureate. She will be the first Black woman to serve in ...

LATIN American literature has a habit of refusing polite entrances. It kicks the door open, rearranges the furniture and asks who owns the house in the first place.La Lucha: Latin American Feminism ...

In 2024, in a story I wrote for this newspaper about a glam L.A. event, I name-checked " 'The Color Purple' star Cynthia ...

IT’S a funny old ritual — approaching year’s end generates the reckoning of cultural experiences through previous months. Cultural products become markers of our internal journeys; on the daily Tube ...

The Whitney Museum of American Art's ambitious effort to rewrite art history is largely a grab bag of disparate stuff.

Pointe-Claire Plaza was a strip mall only a five-minute drive from our house. It had shops, a grocery store, and at the very ...

Men, you know, they write women off. I have been tagged as “volatile” and having “mood swings” but men and the enablers of patriarchy have always used those terms for women just trying to do their job ...

Amplifying sacred voicesThe new book also marks the culmination of a long engagement with accounts of women mystics she’s written about, in her earlier books,&n ...

Once dismissed as obscene, Helga Goetze’s street sermons on sex and pacifism are being reappraised as the city confronts its ...

Bénédicte Savoy is Europe’s leading advocate for the repatriation of cultural heritage. Now, in the wake of a shocking heist, ...

Recent Egyptian blockbuster, El Set (The Woman, 2025), opens in 1967 at Om Kalthoum’s iconic concert at the Olympia in Paris. The camera drifts across a packed theatre, with faces tilted upward, eye ...

Nicola Sturgeon and Andrew O’Hagan are to be the judges of the 2026 Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award, one of the ...