New productions of Shakespeare’s “Richard II,” Annie Ernaux’s “The Years,” Robert Icke’s “Manhunt,” Tennessee Williams’s “The ...

The great Peruvian writer charted the culture and turbulent politics of Latin America in his exuberant, often thoroughly entertaining books. Here are some of the best ...

Surely, freedom means the overthrow of rules? Why leave one bondage merely to enter another, even if only a symbolic one?

By Arun Srivastava Saffron ecosystem must be feeling ecstatic at its achievement of having Waqf board under its belt, ...

Jesus’ procession was a parody of imperial power — a deliberate mockery of Roman spectacle and a prophetic enactment of a ...

Why did Britain (or England) prosper in the late 1700’s and lead the way in the Industrial Revolution? Was this in part due to the earlier Glorious Revolution when our own ‘King Billy’ defeated the ...

Hidden in the footnotes of history books, these lesser-known leaders of Greek origin held great power over numerous countries ...

As the smoke cleared from President Trump's tariff-induced global economic explosion, one clear target emerged - China.

This is the fifteenth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia—to spend time in ...

As the History students and history buffs among you will know, ‘anachronism’ refers to the imposition of modern ideals onto the past. The Medieval period sees this more than others and the POVs ...

The Peasants’ Revolt, which engulfed eastern England in June 1381, was far from unique. The French Jacquerie of 1358, the Parisian revolution of the same year, the rising of the Ciompi in industrial ...