Caroline Wake receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Performances in the Roslyn Packer Theatre typically begin when the house lights go down, the stage lights come up, and the audience ...

His best-known and most substantial novel, Beware of Pity (its German title translates as "The Heart's Impatience"), seems less adaptable, given the revealing consciousness of its first-person ...

Closer, a church bell rests inside a gothic tower. A Victorian dome marks the site of an old cattle market. Somewhere down the hill in Marylebone, a kilometre or two away, is the service flat in which ...

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BEWARE OF PITY—Stefan Zweig—Viking ($2.50). Once upon a time a strong young man found a crippled old man lying in the road, who asked him for a ride on his back. Out of pity the young man obliged.

Bishops in the country have faced mounting calls from Catholics to reopen churches and allow congregations at Masses while respecting social distancing rules. Cardinal Vincent Nichols speaks during ...

English Catholics must avoid "any sense of self-pity" over church closures, Cardinal Vincent Nichols said at a Mass honoring workers in hospitals and care homes. Speaking via livestream from an empty ...