Book Reviews & Recommendations
In Chłopki. Opowieść o naszych babkach (Peasant Women: The Story of Our Grandmothers), Joanna Kuciel-Frydryszak continues her exploration of forgotten female voices, turning her gaze this time toward the women who remained behind in the Polish countryside while their sisters left for […]
B. Dylan Hollis, the beloved creator of Baking Yesteryear, is back behind the wheel with Baking Across America: A Vintage Recipe Road Trip, a charming, sugar-coated journey across the fifty states that celebrates America’s most nostalgic and curious baked creations. This time, […]
Cat Bohannon’s Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution is an ambitious and illuminating work that redefines how we understand the story of our species. In a world where human evolution has long been told through the […]
History has a way of hiding its most extraordinary heroes, and Pippa Latour was one of them. The Last Secret Agent: My Life as a Spy Behind Nazi Lines, co-written with journalist Jude Dobson, finally brings to light the incredible true story […]
Peter Beinart’s latest is not a neutral primer. It is a moral brief that asks readers to reconsider the dominant Jewish narrative of victimhood and supremacy, and to replace it with a story rooted in equality, shared safety, and the infinite value […]
If you ever doubted that geography still dictates the fate of nations, Tim Marshall’s The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World will change your mind. This compelling sequel to Prisoners of Geography dives deep into the […]
Douglas Murray’s On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization arrives at a time when the world’s moral compass seems increasingly fractured. As the author of The War on the West and The Madness of Crowds, Murray has long […]
In The Hour of the Predator (L’heure des prédateurs), Giuliano da Empoli delivers a haunting exploration of modern power. Blending political insight with a sharp, almost cinematic narrative style, the author exposes how today’s global stage is dominated not by institutions or […]
Some books are more than memoirs; they are historical testaments. Patriot: A Memoir by Alexei Navalny, completed before his death in a Siberian prison, stands as both a final letter to the world and an intimate self-portrait of a man who refused […]
Before Rick Steves became a household name in travel, before his PBS shows, bestselling guidebooks, and travel podcasts, there was a young dreamer with a backpack, a notebook, and an unshakable curiosity about the world. On the Hippie Trail: Istanbul to Kathmandu […]