Netflix has been diving headlong into the lives of powerful queens, and its newest four-part docuseries on Cleopatra is no exception. Queen Cleopatra delves into the life of one of the most iconic ...

Netflix’s “Queen Cleopatra”, a four-part docuseries exploring the life and reign of Cleopatra, was released this month to almost immediate criticism. The series, produced by actress Jada Pinkett-Smith ...

"Cleopatra: A Life" (Little, Brown, $29.99), by Stacy Schiff: It's as though Cleopatra lives and breathes once again in the pages of Stacy Schiff's exquisitely researched and well-written "Cleopatra: ...

This queen of Egypt was not unusually attractive, author Stacy Schiff argues, but her arresting, enthralling personality captured the love and attention of two of the world’s greatest leaders. At the ...

Netflix has been diving headlong into the lives of powerful queens, and its newest four-part docuseries on Cleopatra is no exception. Queen Cleopatra delves into the life of one of the most iconic ...

How many of you enjoy a good biography? If you do, you may want to check out "Cleopatra: A Life," written by Pulitzer Prize winner Stacy Schiff. Let me start off by saying I have not read this book.

A new biography by Jane Draycott shines a light on an African queen whose career has been overshadowed by that of her famous forebear. By Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer When you purchase an independently ...

She was a child of incest, a born goddess, a queen by 18 -- and possibly the richest magnate in the Mediterranean before she turned 20. By 21, she was cavorting in bed with the most powerful emperor ...

The tendency to view history “through the lens of our own era” has become more pronounced in recent years. To measure this unfortunate tilt, one could do worse than compare Stacy Schiff’s “Cleopatra: ...

Few creative selections kick conversational hornet’s nests like a producer’s decision to cast a person of color in a role long associated with whiteness. Choosing biracial actor Adele James to play ...