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Emily Donaldson rounds up the most promising titles of the season to add to your reading list

In “November 1942,” Peter Englund pieces together a month in the Second World War with the diaries and memoirs of the people who survived it.

As we prepare to enter the month of August, we will, I’m sure, once again rehash the perennial debate concerning the morality of the use of the atom bomb against Japan. This year, the debate will be enlivened by the release of the excellent film, Oppenhei

In “The Great War and Modern Memory,” Paul Fussell, a combat veteran of WWII, reviewed the literature and art created by the experiences endured by those who fought during the first World War and wrot...

Making sense of revisionist accounts of Truman’s fateful decision

An exchange on when heroes run away

We’re brain-fried on superhero fistfights. It’s time to learn from heroes who run away.

In his new memoir, Jersey Breaks,” former US poet laureate Robert Pinsky, a William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor and a CAS professor of English, writes about how his childhood and youth in 1940s and ‘50s Long Branch, N.J., shaped the poet he would become.

<p>The Russian invasion of Ukraine shows us how gravely the environment is harmed by war and militarism. </p>

<p>The Russian invasion of Ukraine shows us how gravely the environment is harmed by war and militarism. </p>