Imagine strolling along Burlington’s Church Street on a sunny spring afternoon and asking the people you meet, “What’s a novel?” Probably most replies would include mention of characters, narrators, ...

Many popular foods can be traced back to trade caravans and herding groups that turned Central Asia into a hub of globalization several thousand years ago. In Fruit from the Sands, archaeobotanist ...

UNESCO is pleased to announce the publication of the third edition of the Silk Roads Papers. Building on the work of young scholars, this new volume continues to explore the exchanges and interactions ...

Katherine Martinko is an expert in sustainable living. She holds a degree in English Literature and History from the University of Toronto. Canadian writer Kate Harris describes an epic 10-month ...

A Mormon grandfather in Utah has just published a memoire detailing his involvement with and the subsequent take down of notorious Dark Net marketplace Silk Road, KSL reports. The book, called Silk ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Nadja Spiegelman THE SILK ROAD By Kathryn Davis If writers can be said to have an animating ...

The book's discussion of the Roman grapevine ornament mainly focuses on two points, one is the connotation of meaning, and the other is the form and style. In terms of connotation, grapevine in the ...

As Uzbekistan celebrates more than 30 years of independence from the Soviet Union, new projects and openings let international travelers more easily explore the Central Asian country. A high-speed ...

Anyone writing a memoir wonders just what they’re up to, pulling together the scattered materials of experience and library work, but few express that struggle with the poetry of Sofia Samatar. She ...

‘Console Wars’ duo Jonah Tulis and Blake J. Harris have conducted more than 60 hours of interviews with Ulbricht, who became a cause célèbre among libertarians and cryptocurrency enthusiasts after ...