Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War (Posted on Dec. 7, 2009)

By Stephen F. Cohen

(Columbia University Press) In this volume of seven essays, Cohen questions conventional assumptions about the course of Soviet history, the fall of communism, and the effects of Russia’s policies domestically and abroad. Moving from Stalin’s...

The Divine Farce (Posted on Dec. 7, 2009)

By Michael S.A. Graziano ’89 *96

(Leapfrog Press) Locked together in a tiny cell, three people grow intimately close, even loving, in this allegorical interrogation of human existence. When the narrator — a thin man named Sage — digs a hole in the concrete, the three of them...

Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837 (Posted on Dec. 7, 2009)

By Linda Colley

(Yale University Press) Combining imperial, political, social, and cultural history, Colley examines how a more cohesive British nation was invented after 1707 and how this new identity was nurtured through war, religion, trade, and empire. This revised...

The Case for Books: Past, Present, and Future (Posted on Dec. 7, 2009)

By Robert Darnton

(PublicAffairs) In The Case for Books , Darnton offers a history of our literary past and a look at the disruptive forces shaping the future of publishing. This collection of previously published essays examines topics ranging from the role of...

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