In The Empusium, the Polish novelist’s first novel since her Nobel, she pays homage to Thomas Mann in order to redraw the boundaries of the realist novel.

The Nobel prize winner Albert Schweitzer is remembered as a great humanist who helped heal the sick and poor over decades in ...

Thanks to the Folio Society, fans of the 1992 alternate history novel can relive the winding investigation undertaken by ...

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This is the eighth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia — to spend some time ...

Humans just love a good tale of revenge. There is so much inherent drama, wrongs being righted, betrayal and catharsis. So it ...

the development of Rome as the center of an empire, and the role of city-making in history. Our path will follow, roughly, a kind of monumental way envisioned by Augustus when remaking the old Field ...

Book-lovin’ columnist David Allen offers highlights from what he read in 2024, from “Middlemarch” to histories of Riverside ...

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Hannah Kaufman is a young woman beguiled by her grandfather’s fantasy that the Nazis were benevolent when she and the patriarch were transported along with thousands of other Czech Jews to a ...

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Friday dissolved the country’s lower house of parliament to pave the way for snap elections on February 23 following the collapse of Chancellor Olaf ...

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has dissolved the country’s parliament, confirming that snap elections prompted by the recent collapse of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s government will be ...