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How the West Was Won

Triumph of the Willing

On the 75th anniversary of Hitler’s defeat, what can William Shirer’s epic history, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, teach us about today?

Dog Days

Found in Translation

How did a now forgotten masterpiece of American literature become so beloved by Italians?

Head in the Clouds

How Charlie Mackesy accidentally wrote a best-seller and became a social-media sensation in his 50s

Jonathan Galassi

From Dante to Natalia Ginzburg, the publisher and poet celebrates the glorious literary history of a hurting country

The Godfather of Russia

My Father, the S.S. Officer

Girlhood

Essential Reading

On running a bookstore in lockdown

Murder, They Wrote

Looking Ahead: A Post-Crisis Novel

The Oracle of Austin

Identity Crisis

While the younger of Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s two sons struck out on his own, the older struggled to break free from his father’s shadow

Where the Wild Things Were

The Picture of Doris Duke

Self-isolate with Boccaccio

Kvetch, Memory

Come Together

Seven Score and Fifteen Years Ago …

The author of a new book on Lincoln’s second inaugural address captures the country at a historic crossroads

Jan Morris’s Diary

Murder, They Wrote

Death by Committee

Good Place, Bad Place