Read from the 2020 Cundill History Prize Shortlist

Read from the 2020 Cundill History Prize Shortlist

From the Aztec Empire to the Birth of Modern Greece, Some of the Best in Contemporary History

By Literary Hub | October 14, 2020

The Accidental Hobby: On the Books That Made Me a Birder

The Accidental Hobby: On the Books That Made Me a Birder

How Julia Zarankin Found Herself in Franzen Territory

By Julia Zarankin | October 14, 2020

Insider or Outsider? A Brief History of the Classification of Black Music

Insider or Outsider? A Brief History of the Classification of Black Music

Anaïs Duplan on Popular Language, Outside Figures, and the Struggle for Recognition

By Anaïs Duplan | October 14, 2020

Journalist Nomi Prins Explains That $7 Trillion the Fed Magically Created

Journalist Nomi Prins Explains That $7 Trillion the Fed Magically Created

From The Quarantine Tapes Podcast with Paul Holdengräber

By The Quarantine Tapes | October 14, 2020

How a Young John Brown Became the Legendary Militant Abolitionist

How a Young John Brown Became the Legendary Militant Abolitionist

H. W. Brands on the Early Life of an American Avenger

By H.W. Brands | October 14, 2020

Rumaan Alam Recommends the Music of <em>Leave the World Behind</em>

Rumaan Alam Recommends the Music of Leave the World Behind

This Week on the So Many Damn Books Podcast

By So Many Damn Books | October 14, 2020

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • House of Day, House of Night
  • The Award
  • Daring to Be Free: Rebellion and Resistance of the Enslaved in the Atlantic World
  • Casanova 20: Or, Hot World
  • Frostlines: A Journey Through Entangled Lives and Landscapes in a Warming Arctic
  • The Six Loves of James I

Poets and Revolutionaries: On Grappling with Lebanon's Descent to War

By Kim Ghattas | October 14, 2020

The Two Languages That Shaped the History of India

By Richard M. Eaton | October 14, 2020

How Waiting for a Cease-Fire Exposed the United States' Influence in the Middle East

By Rashid Khalidi | October 14, 2020

On Rethinking the 'Modern' in Modern Greece

On Rethinking the 'Modern' in Modern Greece

From Roderick Beaton Greece's Cundill-Prize Nominated Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation

By Roderick Beaton | October 14, 2020

The Jamaican Slave Insurgency That Transformed the World

The Jamaican Slave Insurgency That Transformed the World

From Vincent Brown's Cundill Prize-Nominated
Tacky’s Revolt

By Vincent Brown | October 14, 2020

The Little Known History of a Secret 17th-Century British Conspiracy Group

The Little Known History of a Secret 17th-Century British Conspiracy Group

From Paul Lay's Cundill-Prize Nominated Providence Lost

By Paul Lay | October 14, 2020

How a Commissary General and His Clerks Dispossessed Thousands of Their Native Land

How a Commissary General and His Clerks Dispossessed Thousands of Their Native Land

From Claudio Saunt's Cundill Prize-Nominated
Unworthy Republic

By Claudio Saunt | October 14, 2020

On the Fight for Black Voting Rights at the Turn of the 20th-Century

On the Fight for Black Voting Rights at the Turn of the 20th-Century

From Kerri K. Greenidge's Cundill-Prize Nominated Black Radical

By Kerri K Greenidge | October 14, 2020

What Progressives Could Accomplish by Merging the Fights for Racial and Economic Justice

What Progressives Could Accomplish by Merging the Fights for Racial and Economic Justice

From the New Books Network's Book of the Day Podcast

By New Books Network | October 14, 2020

Bryan Washington's new novel will be adapted for television.

Bryan Washington's new novel will be adapted for television.

By Corinne Segal | October 13, 2020

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