A posthumous memoir by Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, Hisham Matar’s novel “My Friends” and a poetry collection by Anne Carson are among the winners of the National Book Critics Circle ...

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This is Nuruddin Farah’s most powerful novel. As with all of his fiction, it is set in his homeland of Somalia. Maps is an ...

A book that examines decisions made within the Kremlin in its quest to become a global superpower has won a top Canadian ...

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The “city under the ice” revealed a hidden chapter of the Cold War era and gave rise to a new field of scientific inquiry. As ice melt accelerates, its story isn’t over yet.

Keith Lowe vividly recounts the Italian city under Allied occupation.

Vladimir Putin views his country’s cultural sphere like any other sector: a subordinate dominion, which should submit to the ...

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Germany began using daylight saving time during World War I with the thought that it would save energy ... town might not ...