Ron Chernow’s Mark Twain forces a similar conclusion about its subject: clearly an idiot, and a born sucker. This conclusion ...

René Girard is best known for his theory of ‘mimetic desire’. Now Peter Thiel and the vice-president are among his fans ...

The mystery of Shakespeare's true identity explored through various theories, including the controversial idea of Shakespeare ...

The book captures the poetry of GAA, the all consuming awkwardness of turning from boy to man, and being shellshocked by the ...

This One Dublin One Book event focuses on Intimate City, Peter Sirr’s 2021 essay collection (“as ... inspired some of Francis Bacon’s finest portrait work. In the nonconformist circles ...

Number 63 Baggot Street, in the heart of the city’s Georgian core, was the childhood home of the painter Francis Bacon. Over four storeys, a basement and a “turnkey” mews at the back ...

What began as a slow-burning fuse eventually led to the concept of the modern research university a few centuries later, found in the writing of the English philosopher Francis Bacon and his 1627 ...

Readers offer reflections after the death of Pope Francis. Also: The mistakes of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

This guest essay reflects the views of Bob Keeler, a retired Newsday journalist. As Pope Francis lay at death’s door in the hospital on the last Sunday in February, the Gospel reading in the ...

For Idalia Nieves-Reyes, a treasured photo of Pope Francis was her anchor. The framed photo was among the belongings she packed in her luggage when she moved from Puerto Rico to the U.S. mainland ...

Multiple portraits of Francis Bacon, including those by Lucian Freud and Maggi Hambling, reflect the pull he exerted on his contemporaries, while Johnnie Shand Kydd’s candid photographs of the ...