This book successfully embodies a proud perception of a powerful nation and its long and complicated history. Alexander Pershikov and Alexander Sapov’s "Icons of Russia" is an informative, lavishly illustrated, and detailed view of... Read More

In an artful book that questions reality and perception, Martha Beck offers a portrait of a woman at the brink of both despair and discovery. Diana Archer is a single, struggling mother who embarks to the Sierras Oscuras National Forest... Read More

Originally published in English by Putnam in 1949, here’s a WWII concentration camp diary, replete with atrocities and terror, but written by non-Jewish Norwegian Odd Nansen. Arrested in 1942 for helping refugees flee the Nazis,... Read More