Roman emperor Augustus understood, just as Donald Trump does, that to stand at the head of a superpower is to stand as an ...

Charlemagne and The Sopranos, Trump and I, Claudius – all owe a debt to the imperial biographies of Suetonius.

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Sitting in Tom Holland’s study, I am puzzled. Looking around, I can see a suit of chain mail (a present from his brother and fellow popular historian James Holland), a mounted psittacosaurus fossil ...

In a series of inflammatory statements, US President Donald Trump has proposed a ‘radical reimagining’ of Gaza — one that ...

Suetonius, a Roman historian from the first and second centuries, wrote in The Lives of the Twelve Caesars that Augustus ...

In a series of inflammatory statements, US President Donald Trump has proposed a ‘radical reimagining’ of Gaza — one that involves forcibly relocating its Palestinian population and transforming the ...

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of Three Days In June by Anne Tyler and BLOB: A Love Story by Maggie Su.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote a famous book under the title Why We Can’t Wait.  Besides addressing the crime of slavery ...