Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ITV’s Joan is the latest drama series to take over our Sunday evenings and tells the true story of Joan Hannington, one of the ...

Versatile and overused, the colloquial "okay" conveys a wide range of expressions: an acknowledgment of one's well-being, an attitude of either support or indifference, a polite decline of goodwill ...

Bruno Dumont follows his heavy metal "Jeanette" with another strange look at France's famed young martyr. Bruno Dumont’s movies linger somewhere between deadpan comedy and bleak existential yearning, ...

'Joan of Arc,' French auteur Bruno Dumont's second film about the historical French heroine, premiered in the Un Certain Regard sidebar in Cannes. By Jordan Mintzer Those viewers who didn’t think ...

In her new novel, Katherine Chen puts a fresh spin on the oft-examined life of the girl who saved France. By Jess Walter When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an ...

The 4K restoration of 'Joan the Maid,' Jacques Rivette's two-part 1994 feature about the life and death of Joan of Arc, is a major event. By Keith Uhlich In a 1962 interview for the French cultural ...

Even before the production debuted, it had inflamed a rancorous debate about sex and gender that plays out almost daily in Britain. By Alex Marshall LONDON — When the playwright Charlie Josephine ...

As we celebrate the first centenary of the canonization of the Maid of Orléans in the middle of an unprecedented crisis in many countries, her life recalls that faith can defeat all kinds of ...

In the earliest years of my Catholic girlhood, the “Index Librorum Prohibitorum” still exerted a fearsome power. For the faithful, the “Index” was more than a list of books banned by the Church for ...

Before it even opened, this new play by the nonbinary playwright Charlie Josephine had been condemned by some people (who had neither read nor seen it) as a trans appropriation of an iconic female ...