Nina Burleigh

Last week an Italian court found Amanda Knox guilty of the murder of British student Meredith Kercher. Again. Knox was first found guilty in 2009. In the almost seven years since this story broke, an industry of books, websites and made-for-tv movies has emerge to exploit  - or investigate - the case of Amanda Knox. Brooke speaks to author Nina Burleigh, who wrote one of the best accounts of the Knox case, “The Fatal Gift of Beauty, The Trials of Amanda Knox."

A retrial has been ordered in Italy for Amanda Knox and her former boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, who were accused of the 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher. Nina Burleigh, a columnist f...

Until 200 years ago, only the most reckless Europeans dared to explore Egypt. Its history and peoples aroused great interest in Europe. But it wasn’t until Napoleon sent his best scientists to the Nile Valley that Egypt was exposed to the West. This story is told by Nina Burleigh in ...