Muttnik: Canine Rocketeers in the USSR
Rigged with a faulty cooling system, Sputnik 2 was a lemon and killed Laika in three hours, frying her like Icarus.
History
"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw
Fatal Attraction: Love and Murder in Tennessee
Love and murder and teenage girls in Memphis.
A Labyrinth of Terror Made of Coral and a Fragile Global Wonder
Coal meets coral: what could possibly go wrong?
Varieties of Hatred
"Why did the Nazis kill the Jews? Nearly 70 years since the end of World War II, the causes and meaning of the Holocaust remain as high on historians’ agendas as ever."
Because Our Fathers Lied
"They were no different one from another. They smiled, exchanged comments; hands reached out and grasped … If only we spoke the same language!”
Long Burn the Fire: On Political Order and Political Decay
Fukuyama focuses on political decay by analyzing the slow rot of American institutions.
Civil Disobedience
The women, as Abbott expertly portrays them, are not simple-minded diarists accounting for the war in the margins of recipes or reports about social engagements.
Seeds of Grass
The origins of American Bohemia in — where else — Greenwich Village, before the Civil War.
Hans Fallada
Primo Levi called Every Man Dies Alone, by Hans Fallada, “the greatest book ever written about German resistance to the Nazis.”
The Brilliance of "Five Came Back"
The Never-Healing Wound
Intimate details of the people who cared for the 18.5 million wounded in World War I.
A High-Stakes Gamble: Jeff Kingston on Eri Hotta’s Japan 1941
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