This is the thirteenth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia—to spend time in ...

So just who was this Nazi Leader of the Palestinian “Resistance”? Husayni first rose to power offering compliance with the British Mandate. In an apparent pattern of deceit, he quickly emerged as a ...

Prologue An Orphic hymn says that Kypris, Aphrodite of Cyprus, was the “scheming mother of necessity.” She controlled and ...

We all have them in our heads, short sayings or words of wisdom covering the situation in which we or the person we are ...

Exter invested those rubbery dollars not in building factories but in pure consumption! ‘Independence’ was to mimick a white lifestyle, in rupees. Brought in to build up Colombo 7’s fake mansions, ...

There are lies, damned lies and statistics,” said either Benjamin Disraeli or Mark Twain, or Mark Twain about Benjamin Disraeli. • “No, I haven’t seen (insert name here),” said every ...

Nonetheless, Cream quickly found a groove, especially on their 1967 album Disraeli Gears. Combing blues authenticity and instrumental virtuosity with a willingness to explore psychedelic realms ...

If a book is not in a rank since the previous week, it will not have an arrow. The last few titles on the list known as the extended list, never have arrows. An asterisk indicates that a book's ...

Two years before Liz Moore’s novel “Long Bright River” ever hit shelves in 2020 and became a bestseller — and one of Barack Obama’s top books of the year — she was approached by ...