Tag: Lis Harris
Capturing the Queen
March 2011The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer discusses her latest book on Cleopatra that looks beyond tired mythologies surrounding the powerful queen.
Strangers in a Strange Land
April 2009Catching fleeting moments that might normally pass by unremarked in the great whirl of everyday life is the writer’s mission, and one that is especially enlivened by the tabula rasa of a foreign country.
Shadowing the Dogs of War
April 2009As conflict once again threatens the heart of Palestine and Israel, our writer takes a look back to one group who, after great struggle, found a way to ford rivers of blood and tear down the walls of their own minds.
