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Jane Singer, Public Library, and Charlie Hunts, owner of Charlie's Queer Books, recommend four books that showcase LGBTQ+ ...
On September 10, 1898, the reclusive Empress Elisabeth of Austria was visiting Geneva under an assumed name when she was ...
Qin Shi Huang famously sent alchemists east to Japan seeking immortality. Now, a newly discovered inscription suggests he ...
It was built by the Yongle emperor, the third Ming ruler (r. 1403-1424). He declared himself emperor and consolidated his power in Beijing, moving the capital some 620 miles from Nanjing in 1403.
Starting in 2023, a restoration team worked to reconstruct the traces of what the site might have looked like in the past.
A drag queen murder mystery. Lavender marriages. Celebrity romances and hot bartenders. Here are LGBTQ+ books we recommend ...
Another explores how queer sexuality was coded through subtext and suggestion in classic Hollywood cinema. Still others ...
And, if we may be so bold, one of those priorities really should be to dig into one of the many great new books that have ...
Vuong's new novel, The Emperor of Gladness, is the first he's written, from start to finish, since his mother died in 2019.
Vuong's new novel, The Emperor of Gladness, is the first he's written, from start to finish, since his mother died in 2019.
Now, with the release of his second novel, “The Emperor of Gladness,” Vuong raised a whole town from the realm of memory. The ...