20th Century
Just Send Me Word
Lev and Sveta meet in 1935 in the Physics program at Moscow University, but the German invasion in the summer…
All Our Worldly Goods: A Novel of Love Between the Wars
Russian-born writer Irène Némirovsky, who escaped the Communists only to be killed by the Nazis for her Jewish heritage, was…
The Seventh Gate
Editors' choice
Sophie Riedesel is a young Christian German girl growing up in Berlin in the 1930s. Her father is a Communist…
The Boxer Rebellion and the Great Game in China
They called it the “Great Game,” the game played by imperialist nations competing for lucrative trade and commercial privileges in…
September Hope: The American Side of a Bridge Too Far
Toward the end of the summer of 1944, the Allied forces were hopeful about an imminent victory over the Third…
The House of Serenades
Giuseppe Berilli, Genoese lawyer and head of one of the city’s most prominent families in 1910, has always lived a…
The Free World
In the 1970s, more than a quarter of a million Jews left the Soviet Union in search of religious and…
Blessed are the Dead
Editors' choice
It’s difficult to decide what is best about Malla Nunn’s most recent novel, Blessed are the Dead. The setting is…
Skip Rock Shallows
Dr. Lilly Corbett is sent to a coal mining town in Kentucky where folks have an issue with women being…
The Right-hand Shore
The novel begins in 1920 as Mary Bayly, the owner of Mason’s Retreat, a large farm on Maryland’s eastern shore…
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