In Rajiv Joseph’s dark workplace comedy, now running at ArtsWest and coproduced by Pratidhwani, two imperial Indian guards ...

Sat on the site of a former 19th-century carpenter’s house owned by the Hart family, Hart Shoreditch is one of the finest ...

He titled her "Mumtaz Mahal", "Chosen One of the Palace", and commissioned for her a luxurious royal residence of glistening white marble ... trunks of jewels in the imperial treasury, trunks ...

Torre was named "The Marble Faun" by Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edith Bouvier Beale, mostly known as Big Edie and Little Edie in the iconic 1975 documentary, Grey Gardens.

Chinese imperial food dates back to slave society. Ever since there were emperors and palaces, there has been imperial food, which was served mainly to the emperors, their wives and concubines ...

Salt and pepper, silver, pewter, charcoal. Whatever you call it, we all get gray hair at some point. But why do some people go gray in their 20s while others don’t see the first sign of silver ...

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John Gray is an author and contributing writer to the New Statesman. His latest book is The New Leviathans: Thoughts After Liberalism (Allen Lane). In Empire of the Sun, published 40 years ago, the ...

For example, he punished the poorest citizens in the Imperial City for helping the Gray Fox by taxing them ... of Kavatch find a way to close shut the marble jaws of Oblivion.