Our lives are redolent with rituals, from personal to promulgated, from silly to serious, from religious to civic and secular. In The Politics of Ritual, Molly Farneth casts a determined eye on the ...

A well-crafted reading ritual doesn’t just make books more enjoyable—it turns them into something sacred, an experience to be cherished. So how do you create a powerful reading ritual?

This longtime ritual calls for members of the royal family to smear blood on their faces from their first kill during fox or stag hunting. Royal author Tom Quinn claimed in his new book that Kate ...