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Christmas is for the Japanese, rather miserably, a regular working day. This might easily not have been the case.
Wassail — from a greeting meaning “be in good health” — evokes some kind of ancient holiday tradition. But its particulars, ...
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St. Christopher About ten years, ago, my wife Harriet and I spent part of a summer with my parents-in-law at their house in Burnham-Overy-Staithe, on the ...
It is this freewheeling agency, adds Dr McCall, that makes games—especially those that lean towards simulation rather than ...
Awarded the inaugural BRICS Literature Award, Egyptian novelist and critic Salwa Bakr reflects on writing from the margins, ...
We lost an iconic son of Larkana on 15025. His death ended a long era of a nationalist and ideological trajectory of over ...
Opinion

The Leonine pivot

If the last seven months have been an indication, the pontificate of Pope Leo XIV is one that will be fairly conventional for the Catholic Church.
A century on, Battleship Potemkin’s vision of oppression, courage and collective resistance still crackles with an energy ...
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An exhibition prioritizes the expensive, silent object over the lived, functional experience of the believer.