From Gisèle Pelicot's memoir to a new novel by powerhouse Tayari Jones, here are 10 new books to get you through hibernation season.

The far right has turned this blouse with flared sleeves and colorful embroidery into a nationalist emblem. Once again a source of cultural pride after the 1989 revolution in Romania, it now finds ...

According to the latest Eurostat data, Bulgaria now has the highest fertility rate in the European Union. In 2024, Bulgarian women gave birth to an average of 1.72 children each, compared to the EU ...

For centuries, feminist writers and thinkers have turned to myths, legends, fairytales, religious stories, and cultural traditions to make sense of women’s experiences. All of these come under the ...

MERCOGLIANO, Italy (RNS) — Inside a church just outside Naples, people known as femminielli gathered for La Juta, a centuries ...

The largest of four fifteenth-century tapestries, known collectively as the Devonshire Hunting Tapestries, takes falconry as its subject. Lovers are depicted strolling arm-in-arm as their birds hunt ...

While sitting through “Troy” last week my attention wandered to the film’s soundtrack, the last resort of the jaded and popcorn-less. Soon, from the score’s generic, thundering drums and sawing ...

Le cinéma européen promet de se faire de nouveau remarquer au rendez-vous texan, avec des titres allant du film de genre au ...

European filmmakers are again set to make their mark at the gathering, with a selection that spans genre cinema, socially engaged documentaries and formally adventurous works ...

The Feast of Brigid, also known as Imbolc, marks the arrival of longer, warmer days and the early signs of spring on February 1. The word Imbolc means literally "in the belly" in the old Irish ...