The diminutive dictator who ruled Spain with an iron fist
General Franco died on 20 November 1975, and with the 50th anniversary just passed, this biography – the…
Are Vermeer’s paintings really coded religious messages?
The Delft painter Johannes Vermeer, now probably the most beloved artist of the Dutch Golden Age, had an…
11th grader’s ICE arrest spotlights a town reshaped by immigration
Far from the southern border, Massachusetts’ immigrant community lives in fear of ICE and high school students are…
Why it’s good for us to see Pope Francis’s body – and anyway he looks better than Pope Benedict did
But that’s not wholly true of Catholicism in which corpses are quite often on show. The embalmed bodies…