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“Enlightened through compassion, the innocent fool.” So sing the youths of Monsalvat, the mythical Spanish Gothic fortress that guards the Holy Grail in Wagner’s opera “Parsifal,” of the mysterious man who will arrive to save them from their impending doom.…

Photograph by Gary Moyes / BBC / Masterpiece “To Walk Invisible” Recently, in the midst of writer’s block, I did what I always do when marooned in the middle of a story: I sank into bed and surrendered to someone…

In 1936, Walt Disney approached Beatrix Potter with a proposal: he wished to make an animated movie based on “The Tale of Peter Rabbit,” the classic children’s story, from 1902, with which she had begun her career. Potter’s biographers report…

World-famous evangelist Billy Graham died early Wednesday at the age of 99 in his mountain home in Montreat, North Carolina. But unlike most headlines today dealing with religion and conservatism and figures famous for both, the news of his death…

As nation-states in Europe wipe away their borders and dilute the flavors of their national cultures in a European Union slumgullion, their peoples are adopting new identities. Instead of Spaniards, they will be Catalans. Instead of Italians, they will again…