How much of history is ‘his’ story and how of it is ‘her’? The more aware we become of the sources of our knowledge about our ...

His mother Rekha Devi’s story is a thrilling saga of guns, gangs, and Ghalib’s ghazals. The Last Courtesan unfolds with the flair of a 1980s Bollywood action film, yet dives deeper, capturing Rekha ...

Ancient Greek Courtesan Aspasia as a Feminist Heroine: Then and Now. Credit: Patrick Gray / Flickr CC BY 2.0 Aspasia was born in Greece in the fifth century BC. She and Pericles, the great general and ...

Though hardly believable as a true story, Dangerous Beauty (Warner Brothers) mesmerizingly captures the life and struggle of poetess and courtesan Veronica Franco (Catherine McCormack, Braveheart).

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Virginia Woolf, Hilary Mantel and Prince Harry, we learn from A Voyage Around the Queen (Fourth Estate, £25), have each ...

It’s already been a week. But I can’t get out of my head the last stanza of Ernest Lawrence Thayer’s magnificent “Casey at ...

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” at Signature Theatre has some welcome updates for 2024 but a bit too many ...

One strategy for reaching that goal relies on the frame tale that Shevelove, Gelbart and Sondheim built into “Forum”: The ...

VALLEJO — Cooperative opera group Verismo Opera premiered Giuseppe Verdi’s opera La Traviata at Mira Theatre Guild ’s Bay ...

Here are seven Best Picture winners that would never be made today. And if you think Hollywood will respond to […] The post 7 ...

Winston Churchill's aristocratic daughter-in-law and confidante Pamela Harriman is considered "the greatest courtesan of her era". Decades after her death, she still divides opinion – was she a ...