Meeting of Romantic Minds
How a German university town helped usher in the modern age
Verifiable Truths
The thinkers who tried to strip metaphysics from philosophy
Revolutionary Chaos
The first-ever English translation of a 20th-century Russian masterpiece
My Teacher, Harold Bloom
His example helped shape my own approach to literature
Enigma From the East
A Soviet émigré’s never-ending battle to be understood
A Window on Europe
How a tsar turned a fetid bog into an imperial capital
Foes of Judgment
Numbers don’t always reveal the true nature of things
Persecution Complex
A young Bolshevik revolutionary’s unlikely and bloody rise to power
Totalitarianism in Practice
Terror as a way of life in East Germany, Poland, and Hungary
The Worst of Times
A Soviet city barely survives
