Culture

like all abstractions, empire is best understood when considered in terms of individuals, their motivation and experience. the current cult ...

Jeremy Black

i had never lived in new york city before i moved to manhattan in 2018. it was daunting to come as a fully formed adult with a 14-year-old c...

Janine di Giovanni

in the united states, february is designated as black history month. the uk similarly designates october of each year. while, of course, the...

Ken Craycraft

john constable, always a household name, still stands shy of the international stage. although he warrants this major new biography; he sits...

Anthony Mould

closing soon in paris is the most recent rendezvous for the west’s occasional romance with the islamic world. ‘cartier and islamic art: in s...

Lucien de Guise

a former government minister facing jail after tweeting a bible verse said that her trial next week will be a test of religious freedom. päi...

CNA Staff

pope francis has lamented “cancel culture” in his address to diplomats at the vatican. delivering his annual “state of the world” address on...

CNA Staff

an employment tribunal has ruled that an nhs trust harassed a catholic nurse and directly discriminated against her for wearing a cross neck...

Simon Caldwell

if charles dickens had combined his own capacity for overwrought emotional fantasy with h.g. wells’s talent for speculative fiction,  a...

Nick Thomas

st joseph, who protected his family from the persecution of king herod, teaches us how to respond to our difficulties with courage and to tr...

Hannah Brockhaus