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Julia Ioffe, Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, From Revolution to Autocracy (HarperCollins, 2025) The Romanov dynasty which ruled Russia from 1613 until the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II in March 1917 was deeply patriarchal.

Ian Buruma, Stay Alive: Berlin, 1939-1945 (Penguin Press, 2026) At 10:00 pm on September 1, 1939, Adolph Hitler delivered a fiery speech in Berlin’s Kroll Opera House to members of the Reichstag, Germany’s rubber stamp parliament, that was broadcast on ra…

Steven J.

Laura K.

Philippe Sands, 38 Londres Street: On Impunity, Pinochet in England and a Nazi in Patagonia (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2025) In October 1998, former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet traveled to London with his wife Lucia for medical treatment, along with so…

Mark Lilla, Ignorance and Bliss: On Wanting Not to Know (Farrar, Strauss and Giroux) I am confident that most if not all readers of this blog would characterize themselves as naturally curious.

Peter Hayes, Profits and Persecution: German Big Business in the Nazi Economy and the Holocaust (Cambridge University Press, 2025) What level of responsibility can fairly be attributed to German big business for the crimes of Adolph Hitler’s Third Reich?

Michelle Adams, The Containment: Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North (Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2025) The United States Supreme Court’s decision in the 1954 case of Brown v.

Robert B.

Tom Harper, Nick Dykes, Magdalena Peszko, Secret Maps: Maps You Were Never Meant to See, from the Middle Ages to Today (Univ.