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Pilgrimage is not meant to be easy, but it remains a popular pursuit – even for non-believers.

In the late 17th century, Henry Avery—the subject of the first global manhunt—bribed his way into the Bahamas.

Asher Wertheimer was a Jewish tycoon who asked John Singer Sargent to paint him. The results are strange, slippery—and some of the artist’s best work.

Survivors of the whale attack drifted at sea for months, succumbing to starvation, dehydration—and even cannibalism

As countries negotiate a new global goal to raise climate cash, these five charts show why discussions are so fraught.

One of the key ques­tions fac­ing both jour­nal­ists and loy­al oppo­si­tions these days is how do we stay hon­est as euphemisms and triv­i­al­iza­tions take over the dis­course? Can we use words like “fas­cism,” for exam­ple, with fideli­ty to the mean­ing of that word in world

The film treats Catholic theology as mere policy, like the membership rules at Augusta National. This essay contains spoilers.

I will admit that when I heard there was to be a TV adaptation of Say Nothing, based on Patrick Radden Keefe’s book of the same name, released on Disney+, I thought: “Oh no.

Choosing to write about “settler colonialism” as a theoretical notion and political concept is not an obvious choice for a poet and cultural critic, but Adam Kirsch’s new book is not about theory or politics. It deals instead with ideology.

This week, the Guardian’s Zoe Williams pro­filed Ryan Hol­i­day, a one-time pub­lic-rela­tions whiz-kid who’s rein­vent­ed him­self over the past decade as a speak­er for the dead: specif­i­cal­ly Epicte­tus, Seneca, and above all Mar­cus Aure­lius, the fig­ure­heads of the anci