Inji Efflatoun stood alone on a Cairo street, attempting to hail a taxi. As a car finally pulled over, a group of men rushed ...

Chattopadhyay refers to Marie Antoinette as “profligate”—a word that feels rather out of place, given the tragic aura that ...

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Ancient Egypt is known for a great many things — pyramids, mummies, colorful gods and magic. But one of the least known of ...

The author of the Patrick Melrose novels follows his career-long concern with the workings of the brain into an era of ...