Lengthy, involved and meandering, this epic soap opera by veteran historical novelist Falconer (Feathered Serpent, etc.) is set in the court of the 16th-century Turkish sultan Süleyman and its harem ...

Tipu Sultan, the Tiger of Mysore, was defeated and killed by the British on May 4, 1799. By October of that same year, Samuel Fores, a British printer, had published a lurid caricature linked to the ...

Special Correspondence THE NEW YORK TIMES. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...

In Greece one name for mastic is “tears of Chios,” a reference to both the island where the resin is produced and the shape of the dried droplets­­, formed when farmers carve incisions in mastic trees ...

One of the few things worse than right-wing pundits trying to depict Barack Obama as a Muslim in order to win the election are the ones who do it but then are too cowardly to admit they’re doing it.