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The daughter of Persian immigrants, Nur Jahan became the favorite wife and the co-ruler of Emperor Jahangir. Ruby Lal’s “Empress” tells her story.
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Leslie Peirce’s “Empress of the East†tells the story of the slave girl who rose to become Queen of the Ottomans.
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Kirk Wallace Johnson’s “The Feather Thief†recounts “the natural history heist of the century.â€
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For the 200th anniversary of “Frankenstein,” the poet Fiona Sampson has written a new biography of its author: “In Search of Mary Shelley.”...August 3, 2018, 01:50
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David N. Schwartz’s “The Last Man Who Knew Everything†recounts the life of the great physicist Enrico Fermi.
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Fifty years after the spacecraft became the first to leave Earth’s orbit, Robert Kurson tells the story of the remarkable odyssey in “Rocket...May 15, 2018, 10:50