Miriam lives in a limestone townhouse, but in The Deadliest Lie, along her walk through the Jewish quarter and then through the other...

For the image posted here, the depression center left was filled with water and used for swimming practice and mock naval battles. To the...

Aristotle contrasted the genres of comedy and tragedy. He said comedy represents men as worse than they are in real life, whereas tragedy...

In “The Mistress,” a story in The Deadliest Deceptions, a collection of Miriam bat Isaac short stories to be published later this year,...

As the name implies, silk was the most representative and favorite of the goods traded on the Silk Road. Colorful silk fabrics dazzled...

The tripod washstand pictured here is made of wrought iron and comes with a brass pitcher. Notice that the washstand has side dishes for...

Miriam bat Isaac is an alchemist in first-century CE Roman-occupied Alexandria (Egypt). But the emperor, afraid that his currency will be...

When they were girls, Miriam and Phoebe would look forward to having a summer breakfast on the family’s third-floor, Egyptian-style roof...

In The Deadliest Lie, Miriam and Binyamin’s father warns him not to volunteer as a gladiator: Once you sign a contract and take the oath,...

My life changed the day I encountered blabber-mouth Helen in the dairy aisle of our supermarket. “Hey, Sue,” the woman in red said. “I...