Historical fiction is a broad church, spanning detective fiction, romance, family sagas, war stories, feminist polemics, ...

Mary O’Malley has won the 2025 Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry. Her collection The Shark Nursery (Carcanet, 2024) was ...

Today is 170 years since the destruction of Lisbon. The earthquake of All Saints day 17550 in Lisbon changed a nation and is still remembered across the continent. Hence a republication of our ...

Far from the hustle and bustle of Marrakech and Casablanca, Morocco’s coastal capital is finally getting its due. Learn when ...

Far from the hustle and bustle of Marrakech and Casablanca, Morocco’s coastal capital is finally getting its due. Learn when ...

In December 1989, the United Nations declared Oct. 13 International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction. At the time, the aim was to make disaster-risk reduction part of everyday thinking worldwide.

In 1604, William Shakespeare's Othello made its debut. A new production of the famed play starring Denzel Washington and Jake ...

The “independent” project by Lenka Holcnerová and Pavla Šimková at the Lisbon Triennale translates the event’s ...

There are few things more characteristic of the Trump regime than cruelty, often gratuitous cruelty, Shoemaker says.

A sweeping historical novel set in 18th-century Lisbon in the aftermath of the 1755 earthquake, Aftershock is a gripping ...

1512 – Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel paintings in Vatican first exhibited. 1755 – Lisbon earthquake kills more than 50,000 in Portugal. 1800 – John Adams becomes the first US President to live in ...