In “Captives and Companions,” Justin Marozzi traces the stories of the eunuchs, harem women and forced laborers who underwrote empires in Asia and North Africa. By Thomas Meaney Thomas Meaney is the ...
Boxing day will see a cold start. It will be dry and settled, with plenty of winter sunshine and the odd patchy cloud around at times. Tonight Tonight will have a mix of variable cloud moving in from ...
“The Intellectual Origins of American Slavery” (Harvard, 368 pages, $29.95) began with a question. “I wanted to know,” writes John Samuel Harpham, “how what we now consider perhaps the most terrible ...
No suspects are in custody. Two teenagers were killed and at least 14 others injured following a mass shooting at a backyard party in Rochester, New York, early Saturday, according to the Rochester ...