"Marsh, a leading commentator on European affairs, draws on an unsurpassed store of journalistic contacts and economic insight to analyze the EU's responses to various crises since 1989. 'Can Europe Survive?' is essential for anyone engaged with European politics." โAndrew Moravcsik, Foreign Affairs
02.03.2026 16:02 โ
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How White Elites Drained Ancient Art of Its Color
The publication of โChromaโ represents an important shift by museums toward recognizing polychromy and its entanglement with white supremacy.
"[T]his book is a crucial step in transforming 'tacky' into beauty -- and exposing the next generation to the realities of a more polychromatic, multicultural, and complex past."
#MetMuseum #sculpture #ancientworld
25.02.2026 21:31 โ
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โWilliam C. Carter's achievement is a considerable gift to lovers of Proust, not only in the Anglophone world, but everywhere ...It is a delight to see this project brought to completion," writes David Bentley Hart, on a new edition and annotation of Proust's 'Time Regained'.
24.02.2026 16:02 โ
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The Age of Revenge
Once upon a brief time, there was consensus around social progress. But the backlash began almost immediatelyโand has been with us ever since.
"Starr lays bare in abundant detail how transformations in the American economy forestalled the broader economic gains for African Americans that one might have expected after the strides made in the 1960s." @DemJournal
22.02.2026 21:02 โ
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Were People ACTUALLY Happier Back Then?! | Professor Michael Scott
Hack Your Happiness ยท Episode
Curious about whether ancients were happier and the steps they took to do so? Listen to author Michael Scott's feature on the Hack your Happiness Podcast, now on Spotify!
22.02.2026 15:02 โ
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The Struggle for the Fed | Trevor Jackson
The Fed is under attack. Can it be both protected and held accountable?
@nybooks reviews Our Dollar, Your Problem in their new article, The Struggle for the Fed:
21.02.2026 22:02 โ
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Everybody Is Interested in Pigeons
Throughout history people have fancied pigeons for food, pharmaceuticals, and hobby breeding.
A new excerpt on pigeons, from Jones's 'Beastly Britain', has just been published in Plough! Read on below.
21.02.2026 19:02 โ
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โThemistoclesโ gambit,โ by Max Sligh
Max Sligh on โThemistocles: The Rise and Fall of Athensโs Naval Mastermind,โ by Michael Scott.
Read this new review in @newcriterion on Themistocles: The Rise and Fall of Athensโs Naval Mastermind! "This is an illuminating biography, bringing to life the early classical world in stunning detail."
21.02.2026 17:03 โ
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Cristina Rivera Garza: โI Write Vertically, but I Read Horizontallyโ
โI love to fall asleep with a book nearby,โ says the โAutobiography of Cottonโ author. โDreaming and reading merge in beautiful, uncompromising ways.โ
"If James Scott was right, and grains, such as wheat, led to the formation of early states, then cotton lies at the base of empire. And what is an empire but pure cruelty?" @criveragarza @nytimes
20.02.2026 22:02 โ
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The 20 Best Coffee Table Books for 2026
For those who resolve to read more in the new year.
@WSJ includes 'Jean Paul Gaultier: Catwalk', in their list of "The 20 Best Coffee Table Books for 2026".ย
20.02.2026 20:02 โ
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"Bernadac is a deft stage manager, knowing just when to bring certain details and artworks into view. And hat tip to Lauren Elkin for her agile translation of Bernadac and Bourgeois." โPrudence Peiffer, Bookforum, on 'Knife-Woman'.
19.02.2026 17:05 โ
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Join us at the College Art Association's annual meeting to browse our latest art and architecture books from the past year. Save 30% for a limited time: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/caa26/
#art #books #nonfiction
18.02.2026 15:04 โ
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"Sovereignty and Religious Freedom: A Jewish History is a remarkable and exhaustive account of the diverse array of the ways in which Jews have been organized, addressed, empowered, and policed by the laws of the modern state." โAlexander Kaye, Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies
14.02.2026 21:01 โ
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Book recs from Katy Hessel, including Knife-Woman: The Life of Louise Bourgeois by Marie-Laure Bernadac and translated by Lauren Elkin.
#biography #LouiseBourgeois #womenartists
https://katyhessel.substack.com/i/184202038/6-things-to-read
13.02.2026 21:02 โ
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"Gaffieldโs book, 'I Have Avenged America', sets the record straight in a carefully researched and compelling account of [Jean-Jacques Dessalines's] revolutionary life." โCarolyn Fick, Journal of Military History
13.02.2026 18:02 โ
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"An important contribution to both scholarly and popular understandings of the struggle against slavery, the age of revolutions, anticolonial revolt, and Caribbean history." โAmanda Perry, H-Net Reviews, on Gaffield's 'I Have Avenged America'.
13.02.2026 14:02 โ
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"Sovereignty and Religious FreedomโSimon Rabinovitchโs ambitious, elegant, and important bookโchallenges foundational assumptions of modern Jewish historiography." โJulie E. Cooper, Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies
12.02.2026 22:01 โ
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Keep your eye out for Kirkus' detailed review of Higham's 'How England Began', coming out online next week and to print in March!
12.02.2026 18:30 โ
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Episode 382: David Dault โ Shifting Culture
David Dault on the Shifting Culture podcast
Author David Dault ('The Accessorized Bible') makes an appearance on Shifting Culture! Listen to the interview below.
12.02.2026 17:03 โ
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"This first biography of Marshall eloquently makes the case for restoring the author to a place of prominence in the literary canon"โ@BookPage onย Mary Helen Washington's essential new biography ofย Paule Marshall.
11.02.2026 23:30 โ
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"This is the first full biography of Paule Marshall, and I canโt think of a better person to write it. Complemented by her expert literary analysis, Mary Helen Washingtonโs 40-plus-year friendship with Marshall offers an extraordinary perspective on Marshallโs life and work." โMs. Magazine
11.02.2026 21:01 โ
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Joshua 13-24 - Reading Religion
The second installment of Thomas B. Dozemanโs authoritative commentary on the book of Joshuaย Following the Pentateuch in the traditional canon, th...
"[Dozeman]... presents a fascinating analysis," writes Reading Religion in a new review of Dozeman's translation and comments on Joshua 13-24. Learn more below!
11.02.2026 17:03 โ
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"Gordon takes care to paint a picture of [Walter Benjamin's] complex character, spanning his utopian youth to his devastating final days." โEmily Watlington, Art in America, for its February recommended reading list.
10.02.2026 15:30 โ
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