Author turns history into drama
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"Setting the Desert on Fire" (W.W. Norton & Company, 352 pages, $27.95), by James Barr: T.E. Lawrence told his version of the Arab revolt, building the legend of Lawrence of Arabia and the intrigue of that time.
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Christopher Marloweâs âEdward IIâ tells the story of sexual obsession, religious power and the intersection of the political and personal lives of a flawed leader.
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The Mayor of Rome turns novelist with a best-selling book
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It can sometimes happen that on the sidelines of an event that might otherwise be merely an asterisk of history, the veil lifts somewhat to reveal the possibilities of something greater.
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When American writer Christopher Isherwood lived in Germany from 1929 to 1933, he witnessed social and political changes that would soon explode into a world war.
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From Communist spy to distinguished professor to successful painter: Lawrence Martin-Bittman's biography reads like a novel, but it's all true.
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John Banville, an author of serious literary ambitions, has written a swirling, elegant genre novel under a pseudonym.
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America's often bloody  conquest of the southwest as it pursued its "manifest destiny"  is the subject of Hampton Sides' new book, a gripping narrative  which centers on the enigmatic Christopher "Kit" Carson.
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His promulgation of the heliocentric theory ignites a scientific revolution that changes history. Compiled by Tony Long.
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Racial identity, feminism, literature, sexuality and Elizabethan history combine in a provocative rumination in Petronia Paleyâs solo show.
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"God's Crucible Â Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215" (W. W. Norton, 475 pages, $29.95), by David Levering Lewis: Though it all happened 1,300 years ago well Â some of it less than 600 years ago Â Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Levering Lewis says a long military-religious campaign bore seeds of troubled 21st century history.
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The decaying Ottoman bridge on  Bosnia&#39;s River Drina at Visegrad is soon to be restored, but  the community whose life around it was chronicled in an epic  novel is unlikely to be the same again.
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The author of "Death of a Salesman" and "The Crucible" exposed the flaws in the fabric of the American dream.
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His rags to riches story is the stuff of legend, while his personal life could well be the script of an ancient Greek tragedy.
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This beautifully performed, touching one-act play is not quite the personalized cry against genocide that the playwright intends it to be.
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Passages from a folk legendÂs latest album, ÂModern Times,Â echo a 19th-century ConfederateÂs verses.
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The author of âFlower Confidential,â a book that is part confession, part exposÃ©, tours the cityâs flower district.