In South Carolina’s Lowcountry, artists, farmers and designers are writing a new chapter in indigo’s rich and tangled history ...

The buildings were set up along an axis of symmetry: the central place was taken by the church, around which other monastic buildings were arranged, including a row of tiny hermit houses for the monks ...

Over seven miles off the Irish coast, lie the sea crags of Skellig Michael, a breathtaking island once home to a community of reclusive monks. More recently, a different kind of hermit used it as ...

This senior monk, in his early 60s, told me he'd sat out 30 years of "liberation," Cultural Revolution, and other Chinese-inflicted horrors as a hermit, meditating in a cave. Five years ago ...

For his dissertation, he explored what the Carthusians, a religious order of hermit-monks founded more than 900 years ago in France, thought about solitude and how they related to society and the ...

February: At home, in the Urals, snow is lying, a blizzard is swirling, and here, on Athos, its 65 degrees, they’re planting potatoes and onions… “Karoulia”—a pulley, a lifting device with which ...

If you are brave enough to tackle the “uncountable” steps carved into the Pembrokeshire cliffside, you'll find a tiny chapel. The locals know it as St Govan's Chapel, near the village of ...

Transformations are one of the Destined One's most powerful tools in Black Myth: Wukong, so here's how to find every ...

Previous sketches have been shaped by the life of the founder, the Vita Bernardi, which depicts the forests of western France teeming with holy men, and that self-image of hermit preachers in the ...

Garth Greenwell’s Small Rain is a mystical novel, a story in which illness becomes an occasion for a new attention to one’s ...