Whenever the history of twentieth-century communism is discussed, it will not be long before you find a particular figure ...

A new history of the seventeenth-century Basque witch-hunt usefully blows away some old myths, but fails to explain ...

Greene uses the sound of cocktails being made to demonstrate the wide cultural gulf between the young street thug and the ...

Governments reach into the domestic politics of rival countries to subvert them and alter their policies with propaganda and ...

After the test, Nigeria was made to break diplomatic relations with France. Writing on the then situation in his book titled “A RIGHT HONOURABLE GENTLEMAN—The life and times of Alhaji Sir ...

Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review ... In “The Secret History of the Rape Kit,” Pagan Kennedy explores the ...

In Ethiopia: Through Writers’ Eyes, Stranger combines historical analysis, personal anecdotes, and vivid depictions of ...

His declaration that the Nazi gas chambers were "merely a detail" of World War Two history and that the Nazi occupation of ...

No party won a majority in the second round of France’s parliamentary elections ... But elements of National Rally’s antisemitic history resurfaced during the election. Ludivine Daoudi ...

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By The New York Times Books Staff She Changed History, Then Erased Her Own In “The Secret History of the Rape Kit,” Pagan Kennedy explores the tangled story of a simple but life-changing ...

In “The Secret History of the Rape Kit,” Pagan Kennedy ... the Great” showcases her passion for her subject. The new book “El Cid: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Mercenary” delves ...