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A Visionary Psychopath
The Ottoman sultan Selim I is a near-perfect illustration of Machiavelli’s premise that the powerful individual is the driver of history.
God’s Shadow: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World
by Alan Mikhail
August 19, 2021 issue
The Pillage of India
William Dalrymple’s ‘The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire’ and Shashi Tharoor’s ‘Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India’
The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
by William Dalrymple
Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India
by Shashi Tharoor
June 11, 2020 issue
The River
Unruly Waters: How Rains, Rivers, Coasts, and Seas Have Shaped Asia’s History
by Sunil Amrith
Ganges: The Many Pasts of an Indian River
by Sudipta Sen
River of Life, River of Death: The Ganges and India’s Future
by Victor Mallet
October 10, 2019 issue
The Seduction of Jihad
Two Sisters: A Father, His Daughters, and Their Journey into the Syrian Jihad
by Åsne Seierstad, translated from the Norwegian by Seán Kinsella
April 4, 2019 issue
The New Europeans
Europe has become more anti-Muslim as it has become more Muslim.
La Fracture [The Fracture]
by Gilles Kepel
Al-Britannia, My Country: A Journey Through Muslim Britain
by James Fergusson
Europe’s Angry Muslims: The Revolt of the Second Generation
by Robert S. Leiken
June 7, 2018 issue
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