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The Late Bronze Age collapse is a shocking event when cultures across the Eastern Mediterranean and Near East mysteriously fell between 1200-1150 BC.

 

Outside two world wars and the protracted Cold War, what most defined 20th century geopolitics were two competing global projects: imperialism and anti-colonialism. Totalitarian rulers embraced both banners, launching wars of aggression that crushed the ambitions of free peoples and those yearning to be free. Today, those malignant projects are back, once again setting the world aflame. Extinguishing the fires will take both might and moral clarity. It will also require the radical left to admit...

Eropa di abad pertengahan tergila-gila dengan buah aneh yang hanya bisa dimakan ketika sudah busuk. Lalu suatu ketika, buah itu terlupakan begitu saja. Apa yang terjadi? Pada 2011, arkeolog menemukan sesuatu yang tak biasa di sebuah kloset peninggalan zaman Romawi. Tim ini tengah melakukan penggalian di desa kuno bernama Tasgetium (sekarang Eschenz, Swiss), yang dahulu dipimpin oleh seorang raja Celtic, dengan tanah pemberian pribadi dari Julius Caesar. Desa ini dibangun di tepi Sungai Rhine, ...

WHAT IT’S ABOUT: The narrator, also named Juan Gabriel Vásquez, becomes involved with a strange man obsessed with conspiracy theories about the assassination of a popular left-leaning politician, Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, in 1948. Set in modern-day Colombia, the novel has a book-within-a-book, a detour from the main story line, to a different murder: the killing in 1914 of General Rafael Uribe.  WHY I’M LOVING IT: References to real historical events, with supposedly authentic...