In The Deadliest Sport, Miriam has reason to be afraid. “I dread attending Binyamin’s bout but not because I’m afraid he’ll lose. He told...

In a Roman-style home, the tablinium is the room off the atrium where the head of the household conducts business. In Chapter One of The...

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In The Deadliest Sport, Binyamin tells us how he became a gladiator: “I left Alexandria for Capua ten years ago, when I was sixteen, full...

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Now and then I contribute to BookDaily.com a blog on writing. This one, published recently, is about watching soap operas to become a...

In The Deadliest Sport, Miriam tells us she cuts up the cakes of animal dung drying in the courtyard to fuel her distillation apparatus....

Since last week’s blog, I’ve gotten at least a dozen inquiries about that dead body found in a locked room at The Pegasus and how that...

The Deadliest Sport opens with Binyamin’s return to Alexandria to fight his last bout after ten years in gladiatorial arenas all over the...