A magisterial tome on the international negotiations that shaped modern American history, Stuart E. Eizenstat’s "The Art of Diplomacy" gets down to the brass tacks of foreign affairs. An ode to diplomacy’s power and fickleness, this... Read More

During the final decades of the Soviet Union, the country’s Jewish population was stuck in an impossible situation, unable to practice their religion and also forbidden to leave. Shaul Kelner’s "A Cold War Exodus" shows how a... Read More

Earth burns, placing billions of people in a state of crisis in Natasha Pulley’s visionary novel "The Mars House". January accepts a spot on a refugee ship to Mars as a means of escaping the “fairy-tale nightmare” of fire-, flood-,... Read More

A chance encounter alters the course of a man’s life in Gustave Flaubert’s freshly translated novel "Sentimental Education". Weak-willed, self-centered Frédéric has just graduated from school. On the boat ride home, the sight of a... Read More

John J. Berger’s ambitious environmental tome "Solving the Climate Crisis" sets forth practical policy solutions for addressing climate change. Eschewing doom and gloom, this forward-looking book outlines concrete steps toward... Read More

Weaponized nostalgia endangers the world and forces a reckoning between old friends in Sin Blaché and Helen MacDonald’s novel "Prophet". An American-style diner, a bouquet of flowers, and a board game are among the objects that... Read More

Timothy Phillips visits strategic points along the former Soviet border in his travelogue "Retracing the Iron Curtain". The Iron Curtain was an ideological and physical barrier that cut Europe into East and West for decades. Though the... Read More

The historical biographies collected in Elizabeth Cobbs’s "Fearless Women" cover those who advanced women’s rights at each stage in American history. Arguing for broader definitions of feminism and patriotism that encompass their... Read More