Nina Martyris

May 21, 2019
A Calculated Display of Debauchery and Power
The Roman banquet may well have been the original staging ground of gastronomic excess — think platters of peacock tongue and fried dormice, chased down with liters of wine...
March 11, 2019
The Power of Giving Book Characters the Same Name
Did you register, dear viewer, that Downton Abbey had two characters named Thomas B: the malignant footman turned loyal butler Thomas Barrow, and the socialist chauffeur turned...