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How the West Was Won

Dog Days

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?

Found in Translation

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

Jonathan Galassi

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

The Godfather of Russia

Head in the Clouds

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

Essential Reading

On running a bookstore in lockdown

Murder, They Wrote

Girlhood

My Father, the S.S. Officer

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

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

Kvetch, Memory

Jan Morris’s Diary

Come Together

Murder, They Wrote

Death by Committee

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