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Central Europe pops up on the front pages of newspapers every few decades. Whether it is because of Franz Ferdinand and his morganatic wife dying at the hands of a Bosnian Serb in 1914, the consequences of the 1938 Munich agreement surrendering Czech lands to Hitler, the drawing of the Iron Curtain after World War II by the Soviet tyranny, the annus mirabilis of 1989 bringing liberty to oppressed nations, or, now, the violent westward push by Russia in Ukraine—Central Europe is the place where...

Recently, there has been a spate of horrific murders.

In advance of the publication of Freedom House’s annual Nations in Transit report, we present another installment of our ongoing book series—featuring books that help explain the state of democracy in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

A recent book on evolutionary theory fails to reckon with the social side of natural selection.

John A. Glusman, who served as v-p and editor-in-chief of W.W. Norton since 2011, will step down from his position as editor-in-chief in July. Succeeding him is Dan Gerstle, who joined Norton’s Liveright imprint as a senior editor in 2018.

The 107th annual Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism, Letters, Drama and Music were announced today. The winners in each category:

The Associated Press won two awards for its Ukraine coverage, including the prestigious Public Service award. The prize for fiction went to two books: Demon Copperhead and Trust.

Eighteen books were recognized as winners or finalists. Among the history finalists: a study of how the Anishinaabeg people resisted the taking of their land and protected their people, a book edited by Williamsburg's Omohundro Institute.

The Associated Press won two awards for its Ukraine coverage, including the prestigious Public Service award. The prize for fiction went to two books: Demon Copperhead and Trust.

Hernan Diaz and Barbara Kingsolver each received a fiction prize, and the Washington Post journalists Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa won the nonfiction prize for “His Name is George Floyd.”