Dinner with Caligula
The mind-boggling extravagance of feasts hosted by Roman emperors depended on an equally mind-boggling maldistribution of wealth
History Against the Grain
A new global story of food tracks the rise of “middling cuisine,” but neglects to read for the hungry
Empire Records
Guantánamo Diary's missing passages connect it with the US empire's deeper history of far-flung capture and detention networks
The Union Jack and the Southern Cross
Symbolic erasure of the indegene on New Zealand's campaign trail