For outsiders, exorcisms often seem confined to horror films or medieval superstition. Yet Catholic clergy today speak of an astonishing surge in requests for deliverance rituals. “The Vatican does not track global or countrywide exorcism,…
Read more →On a spring day not long ago, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published a cheeky guide on how to survive a zombie apocalypse. It was an unlikely endorsement of a monster that…
Read more →On a winter day in 2010, Tokyo prosecutors asked for a 17-year sentence for Takeshi Kuwabara, who had strangled his lover, Rie Isohata, after a bitter argument.[1] For many observers, the most extraordinary thing about…
Read more →In a South Boston tavern one evening, over amber glasses of whiskey, a handful of Irish-American old-timers nod gravely as they swap stories of long-ago gun battles and oaths sealed in blood. The neighborhood has…
Read more →“Urban decay meets prosperity” – A split composition showing gleaming Dublin office buildings and modern cafés on one side, contrasted with deteriorating 1960s high-rise housing estates (Ballymun towers) on the other, shot at dusk with…
Read more →Hungary banned Pride, but 200,000 marched anyway. Inside Orbán’s anti-LGBTQ crusade and the resistance movement reshaping Hungarian democracy. 3 Relevant Image Prompts: Massive crowd at Budapest Pride march: Aerial view of tens of thousands of…
Read more →January 2026: a self-published novelist in her sparsely lit study steels herself for a year of resolutions and a brand-new writing companion. She has been hearing that generative AI will be as ubiquitous in publishing…
Read more →In the hush after the holidays and on the cusp of Sundance season, a quiet revolution is creeping into the film world’s margins. Indie directors, fresh from applying for early-year grants, find themselves armed with…
Read more →Behind the romantic notion of a lone writer with pen and parchment lurks the modern reality of code and cloud. Today, “from the germination of an idea to the final cut,” AI systems touch every…
Read more →In quiet study corners and makeshift home offices around the world, a new kind of reader has begun to stir. This reader isn’t human at all, but an artificial intelligence. Armed with advanced language models…
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