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A convention of Satanists slated to begin Friday in Boston will be met with prayer, not protests, from Catholics and evangelicals, spokespersons for the religious communities say.

There is plastic in our bodies; it’s in our lungs and our bowels and in the blood that pulses through us. We can’t see it, and we can’t feel it, but it is ..

New York Times: The harm we have done to the planet is being visited on our own bodies.

Mark OConnell: Maybe this has been our fate all along, to achieve final communion with our own garbage.

A reader wanted to attract pollinators and foster biodiversity without spending a bundle to redo her property. We’ve got tips.

Maybe this has been our fate all along, to achieve final communion with our own garbage.

The Northern Ireland deal wasn’t based on drawing ordinary people together, but managing sectarian division

Max Porter’s first novel, Grief is the Thing with Feathers, won the Sunday Times/Peters, Fraser + Dunlop Young Writer of the Year, the International Dylan Thomas Prize, and was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the Goldsmiths Prize. His work has been translated into 30 languages, and his new book Shy will be published by Faber next week.

The author discusses her latest novel, Strange Sally Diamond, plus her ideal presidential candidate, the wisdom of Judge Judy and the book she threw into the bin as fast as she could

Northern Ireland’s economy has been transformed since the Belfast/Good Friday peace agreement, analysis has concluded. Since the accord was signed in 1998...