
Fascism’s Poster Girl
Edda Mussolini was once considered “the most dangerous woman in Europe,” but did she have real political power?
Mussolini’s Daughter: The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe
by Caroline Moorehead
March 23, 2023 issue
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Jenny Uglow is a biographer and cultural historian. Her latest book, Sybil and Cyril: Cutting Through Time, was published in the US in December. (March 2023)
Fascism’s Poster Girl
Edda Mussolini was once considered “the most dangerous woman in Europe,” but did she have real political power?
Mussolini’s Daughter: The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe
by Caroline Moorehead
March 23, 2023 issue
Silences and Scars
Two new books on Berlin track the city through decades of growth, economic desperation, artistic innovation, Nazi terror, political division, and reunification.
Berlin: Life and Death in the City at the Center of the World
by Sinclair McKay
The Undercurrents: A Story of Berlin
by Kirsty Bell
October 20, 2022 issue
Out of His Element
In a new selection of John James Audubon’s oceangoing writings, we sense his obsessive quest to draw every bird he saw, even though he disliked being on the water.
Audubon at Sea: The Coastal and Transatlantic Adventures of John James Audubon
edited by Christoph Irmscher and Richard J. King, with a foreword by Subhankar Banerjee
August 18, 2022 issue
A Master of Ambiguity
Hans Holbein evoked his subjects with uncanny verisimilitude, but leaves us to guess at his opinions of them.
The King’s Painter: The Life and Times of Hans Holbein
by Franny Moyle
Holbein: Capturing Character
an exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, October 19, 2021–January 9, 2022; and the Morgan Library and Museum, New York City, February 11–May 15, 2022
March 24, 2022 issue
Europe’s Great Emporium
Sixteenth-century Antwerp was alive with entrepreneurial merchants, rapacious moneylenders, whispering spies, and heretical ideas.
Europe’s Babylon: The Rise and Fall of Antwerp’s Golden Age
by Michael Pye
February 24, 2022 issue
Napoleon’s Greatest Trophy
How a Venetian masterpiece ended up in the Louvre.
Plunder: Napoleon’s Theft of Veronese’s Feast
by Cynthia Saltzman
October 21, 2021 issue
Contagious Constitutions
Linda Colley shows in her new book that written constitutions developed both as a means of shoring up entrenched rulers and of turning successful rebellions into legitimate governments.
The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World
by Linda Colley
June 10, 2021 issue
The Reader of Rocks
William Smith’s innovative use of the fossil record helped him create the first detailed geological map of England, Wales, and Scotland.
Strata: William Smith’s Geological Maps
with a foreword by Robert Macfarlane and an introduction by Douglas Palmer
March 11, 2021 issue
The Imperial Gardener
How Joseph Banks made the royal garden at Kew the most outstanding botanical collection in the world.
Planting the World: Joseph Banks and His Collectors: An Adventurous History of Botany
by Jordan Goodman
January 14, 2021 issue
They Made London Their Own
A new book traces the multitudinous contributions of migrants to the capital, as well as their persistent exploitation.
Migrant City: A New History of London
by Panikos Panayi
December 3, 2020 issue
What the Weather Is
Waters of the World: The Story of the Scientists Who Unraveled the Mysteries of Our Oceans, Atmosphere, and Ice Sheets and Made the Planet Whole
by Sarah Dry
December 19, 2019 issue
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