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When Daniel Penny turned himself over to police on May 12, 2023, after the Manhattan district attorney’s office announced its decision to charge him with manslaughter, photographs of his...

When he was a young social worker in St. Louis, Roger Baldwin was briefly engaged to Anna Louise Strong, who later published more books in defense of the Russian...

The 1619 Project:A New Origin Storycreated by nikole hannah-jonesone world, 624 pages, $38 In 1930, Lorenzo Greene traveled around the United States selling books about black history on behalf...

Chosen Country:A Rebellion in the Westby james pogue henry holt & co., 304 pages, $28 At a time when most of the news on television is at some level...

Janet Malcolm died on Wednesday, June 16, the same day that the New Yorker signed its first deal with an employee union after resisting every unionization attempt since 1976—in...

Salazar:The Dictator Who Refused to Dieby tom gallagher hurst, 360 pages, $34.95 The sinister character ­Salazar Slytherin, of Harry Potter fame, was named after Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, prime...

How unsurprising that Dahvi Waller, creator of the recent miniseries about Phyllis Schlafly, Mrs. America, used to work on AMC’s Mad Men. The things people say in this miniseries...

The Dolphin Letters, 1970–1979: Elizabeth Hardwick, Robert Lowell, and Their Circleby elizabeth hardwick and robert lowell edited by saskia hamilton farrar, straus and giroux, 560 pages, $50 In the...

The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequalityby bhaskar sunkarabasic, 288 pages, $28 In the spring of 2019, even the staid old AFL-CIO...

After a lifetime of impeccably correct opinions, Ian Buruma found himself on the wrong side of the liberal consensus in September 2018, when he was forced to resign as...

The Controversy of Valladolid of 1550 was one of the great dramatic set pieces of the Spanish Conquest. For six days straight, two men debated the morality of Spain’s...

Miłosz: A Biographyby andrzej franaszektranslated by aleksandra parker and michael parkerbelknap, 544 pages, $35 The impression left in the mind of an American reader, after he finishes Andrzej Franaszek’s...

Toussaint Louverture: A Revolutionary Lifeby philippe girardbasic books, 352 pages, $29.99 The Virginia planter and Fire-Eater Edmund Ruffin, who in 1865 blew his brains out rather than live under...

The Art of Being Free: How Alexis de Tocqueville Can Save Us from Ourselvesby james poulosst martin’s, 304 pages, $26.99 Alexis de Tocqueville was sensitive about his height, a...

Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warningby timothy snydertim duggan books, 462 pages, $30 F aced with the challenge of finding something new to say about the Holocaust,...