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“Taste the Journey”: On Caroline Eden’s “Black Sea: Dispatches and Recipes, Through Darkness and Light”

“Taste the Journey”: On Caroline Eden’s “Black Sea: Dispatches and Recipes, Through Darkness and Light”

Lauren Goldenberg

Lauren Goldenberg savors “Black Sea: Dispatches and Recipes, Through Darkness and Light” by Caroline Eden.

The People Will Not Forget

The People Will Not Forget

Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno

The closure of a Guatemalan anti-corruption office makes their government look bad, and the United States even worse.

Horror and Moral Splendor: On Douglas Smith’s “The Russian Job: The Forgotten Story of How America Saved the Soviet Union from Ruin”

Horror and Moral Splendor: On Douglas Smith’s “The Russian Job: The Forgotten Story of How America Saved the Soviet Union from Ruin”

Richard Lourie

Richard Lourie takes on “The Russian Job: The Forgotten Story of How America Saved the Soviet Union from Ruin” by Douglas Smith.

Daring to Hope for the Improbable: On Bernard Stiegler’s “The Age of Disruption”

Daring to Hope for the Improbable: On Bernard Stiegler’s “The Age of Disruption”

Leonid Bilmes

A major European philosopher diagnoses the pathologies of our time.

Everything but Borscht: Exploring the Ambiguities of Russia with Sara Wheeler and Ethan Pollock

Everything but Borscht: Exploring the Ambiguities of Russia with Sara Wheeler and Ethan Pollock

Randy Rosenthal

Randy Rosenthal delves into Russia culture, from borscht to the banya, with Sara Wheeler and Ethan Pollock.

The Stars Her Destination: On Sara Wheeler’s “Mud and Stars: Travels in Russia with Pushkin and Other Geniuses of the Golden Age”

The Stars Her Destination: On Sara Wheeler’s “Mud and Stars: Travels in Russia with Pushkin and Other Geniuses of the Golden Age”

Bob Blaisdell

Bob Blaisdell tags along with Sara Wheeler through “Mud and Stars: Travels in Russia with Pushkin and Other Geniuses of the Golden Age.”

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Exhuming Lafcadio Hearn

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Before Climate Change, a Dynamic Arctic

Before Climate Change, a Dynamic Arctic

Erika Howsare

A dazzling new history of the Arctic region between the United States and Russia is leavened with sharp prose and well-informed insights.

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Out of the Glass Case: Museum Heists and Repatriations

Out of the Glass Case: Museum Heists and Repatriations

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Megan Ward looks at the 2018 film “Museo,” starring Gael García Bernal, and contemporary debates around museum repatriation and cultural memory.

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