For many, 2023 was a year of momentous change and loss, marked by events that will be chronicled in history books for generations to come. Longstanding tensions in the Middle East erupted when Hamas ...

And now we're going to go back - way back - to a period which might have some resonance for today - the fall of the Roman Empire. At the time, writes historian Douglas Boin, Rome had expanded, ...

The epigraph of Katy Simpson Smith’s ambitious third novel, The Everlasting, invokes a portion of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s elegy to the poet John Keats: “Go thou to Rome, — at once the Paradise, / The ...