Her life story parallels that of her beloved friend Meiling, a lower-status midwife-in-training with her own limitations due to both her class and sex. This one made lots of “best books of 2023” ...
Books about the civilizations of pre-colonial Indigenous North America, the early Black civil rights movement and post-Second World War Japan are finalists for the US$75,000 Cundill History Prize ...
From heartwarming love stories, to tragic tales of betrayal and dark political comedies, read on for our picks of the best World War Two novels. A tale of resilience and endurance, and the unfettered ...
Books about the civilizations of pre-colonial Indigenous North America ... Rounding out the list of finalists is Gary J. Bass’s “Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia ...
Looking for some murder and mayhem (fictional, of course)? Here are the best crime novels of 2024 so far. By Sarah Weinman Our crime columnist on books by Kate Atkinson, Nicholas Meyer ...
Curtiss ended up in Istanbul collecting rare books from the city’s shops and bazaars, while secretly running OSS counterespionage operations as Agent 005. The details of the world Graham ...
Analysts studied novels, scholarly books ... I hope that we’ll never see another war like World War II again, and I hope that we use our nation’s intellectual resources to cultivate peace.