“S umer is icumem in,/Lhude sing cuccu ” – or “Summer is here,/Loudly sing, cuckoo” – are the opening lines of a much-anthologised medieval poem-song. Well, summer is just about done now and we’ve had ...

Canada's musical poet Leonard Cohen would have celebrated his 90th birthday today. A series and a documentary look at his ...

Playground,” Powers’s new novel, aims to do for the oceans what “The Overstory” did for trees, shaking us out of our human ...

The proposed Bill is a political reaction rather than an honestly desired and prudently planned piece of legislation ...

How do you count your dead when the dying happens on the run? How do you account for them when there is only so much you can ...

As you eat, another poem makes clear you abhor this horrifying ... The sculptor Sahej Rahal uses the Unreal game engine to create grotesque, misunderstood monsters. Avinash Kumar, of the studio ...

Loneliness is a modern paradox: we're becoming increasingly isolated despite unprecedented connection. Loneliness in Ireland ...

This intellectual incursion into Denja’s literary praxis from Fajenyo’s New Perspectives, could not have come at a more ...

Wicked is the pinnacle of stories about a tragic villain, but one upcoming movie is about to change the game by adapting an ...