As I arrived at the press preview for Tate Britain’s new exhibition, I saw the glass cabinets containing the familiar pages of William Blake’s etchings, with their slightly over-neat handwriting and…

The latter years of the 1960s proved to be a fruitful time for The Beatles, although they had quit doing live concerts in 1966 it was during that time period in which they produced their most…

This collaboration by the three U.S. government officials who led the fight in the United States against the financial crisis of 2008 presents a mature and…

* “I have thought of taking away publishing rights from AUC, and I even filed three lawsuits against the institution.” *” My father tried teaching me and my sister story writing while we were…

The Human Tide: How Population Shaped theModern World.Paul Morland. PublicAffairs, 2019. 352pp. Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline.Darrell BrickerandJohn Ibbitson. Crown, 2019…

Dancing Bears: True Stories of People Nostalgic for Life Under Tyranny.Witold Szablowski.Penguin Books, 2018. 256pp.Welcome to the Wild East. First, there are Bulgarian Gypsies with dancing bears…

In this engaging book, Straumann, a leading Swiss economic historian, examines a critical factor in Adolf Hitler’s rise to power. In the last days of the Weimar Republic,…

“My family in Alexandria received death threats because of my dancing performances. This is one of the reasons I got married to the composer Ahmed Fouad Hassan, as he could protect me…

On Press: The Liberal Values That Shaped the News.Matthew Pressman.Harvard University Press, 2018. 336pp. Breaking News: The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now.Alan Rusbridger.Farrar,…

Nadine Njeim was born in Baalbek District, Lebanon, in 1984 to a Lebanese Christian father and a Tunisian Muslim mother. Her multi-faith upbringing taught her tolerance and…