A bountiful year in books: The best reads of 2023 - CSMonitor.com
This year’s best books, chosen by Monitor reviewers, pay close attention to history and its lessons for the present – and the future.
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This year’s best books, chosen by Monitor reviewers, pay close attention to history and its lessons for the present – and the future.
This year’s best books, chosen by Monitor reviewers, pay close attention to history and its lessons for the present – and the future.
Sitting in the lobby of Moscow's Metropol hotel at some moment in the mid-'90s, a client and I (I was working in finance at the time) gazed at those wandering by—hard-looking men involved in who-knows-what business, sleek women involved in we-knew-what business, some wealthy "new Russians" sporting haute couture and ostentatious disdain for Soviet drabness—all stock characters in Weimar Moscow. The two men deep in conversation at a neighboring table were under investigation in a financial scandal then making headlines in the U.K. "What is this, Casablanca?" as...
PROFESSOR Dr Dirk Boll, deputy chairman of 20th and 21st century art at Christie’s in London, challenged traditional concepts of the international art mar...
From fiction to fact: winning reads for all kinds of dads.