On the reading list this week is a compendium of Bengali writing in translation that spans eras, a debut novel that examines ...

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Guest columnist Anna Barker shares her latest historical piece.

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Long before Julia Child and Emeril Lagasse, Antonin Carême gained international fame, by cooking for kings and writing ...

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As soon as the Americans got rid of the British in the 1780s, they began headlong expansion ...

American writers misleadingly interpreted Egypt's past to argue that slavery was a divinely sanctioned institution ...

Hello and welcome to another edition of the Weekly Vine. In this week’s edition, we look at the new French-Canadian alliance ...