Selected Readings of Robert Caro By Robert Caro This past weekend, I was left alone for the first time in a long time thanks to the pandemic, standing sentry to our four dogs, including a puppy, two goats, an angry cat, several chickens and fish, and my own vices. With socializing out of the question, […]
Train to Samarkand
By Yakhina Guzel Shamilevna
“Train to Samarkand” is a new novel by Russian writer Guzel Yakhina, who gained notoriety in Russia after her...
The Uyghurs: Strangers in Their Own Land
By Gardner Bovingdon
In “The Uyghurs: Strangers in Their Own Land,” author and professor of Central Eurasian studies Gardner...
Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War
By Fred Kaplan
A reader recommended Fred Kaplan's “Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War” to me,...
Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism?
By Robert Kuttner
Almost two months ago, I praised Branko Milanovic for his ability to write a dystopian narrative about the...
After the Revolution
By Robert Evans
Every Texan worth their salt knows that Texas fought a war of independence to become its own republic. That Texans...
Generations of the Holocaust
Martin S. Bergmann and Milton E. Jucovy
I sometimes read books on Judaism, because, well, I’m Jewish. There’s a part of Judaism...
Goodbye to Budapest: A Novel of the Hungarian Uprising
By Margarita Morris
Hungary was far from free after World War II. Despite the collapse of the...
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