Have you ever wondered why your dog’s ears prick up even when you hear nothing? You sit reading the newspaper when Toby runs towards the door barking as if his best friend is outside. It could be ...

The marriage of Fred and Maria Manning was far from a happy one, with infidelity on both sides. Not even joining together to commit murder could brimg them closer.

Noticing gender inequalities, calling out mansplaining, & losing friends. Aisling Walsh tells us how "feminism ruined my life".

With the remake of The Magnificent Seven hitting our screens, Stephen Porzio looks at the legacy of Sergio Corbucci, the legendary western director.

Diogenes was one of the more eccentric of the Greek philosophers. Homeless and irascible, scandalous and obscene, he still inspired later generations.

Catherine Monvoisin was allegedly a poisoner who practiced human sacrifice. Her fall shoke the court of Louis XIV to its foundations.

Abel Debritto, a former Fulbright and Marie Curie scholar, works in the digital humanities and is a certified Iyengar yoga teacher. He is the author of Charles Bukowski, King of the Underground, and ...

Joseph Fouché was a bloody-handed architect of the French Terror; but he avoided any backlash for it. There's always employment for a man without scruples.

The genius of Eugène François Vidocq lay in one simple principle. In order to catch a criminal, you had to be able think like a criminal. And in his case that was easy, because he was one. He’s ...

The Roman Republic was one of the first great democracies, an influence on the world to this day. And we owe it all to Tarquin the Proud, a king so bad that he made his people swear to have no kings ...

The Birth of Venus: How Botticelli focused more on the idealism of the female figure, along with mythology and symbolism in his secular pieces.

David O'Donoghue, our resident W.B. Yeat's fanboy, writes about the great poet and his interest in Fascism.