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The Godfather of Russia

Jonathan Galassi

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

Girlhood

My Father, the S.S. Officer

Essential Reading

On running a bookstore in lockdown

Murder, They Wrote

Looking Ahead: A Post-Crisis Novel

The Picture of Doris Duke

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

Self-isolate with Boccaccio

Come Together

Jan Morris’s Diary

Kvetch, Memory

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

Death by Committee

Some Things Never Change

The author of a book on the Black Death reflects on how little human nature has evolved since that crisis

Good Place, Bad Place

A Journey to the Center of the Earth

A book showcasing exquisite drawings both ancient and modern captures our evergreen relationship with mapping the world

Murder, They Wrote

Nonfiction Books for the Quarantine

What to read this season, including memoirs by Woody Allen and Princess Margaret’s lady-in-waiting

The Road to Nazism

Battle-Ready