Recommendations from our site
“There are also new books out, or due out shortly, about some of the later Roman rulers, including Julian, the subject of Gore Vidal’s 1964 historical novel. Philip Freeman, a professor at Pepperdine University, brings us Julian: Rome’s Last Pagan Emperor, about the man who tried to ditch Christianity and return the empire—by then based in Constantinople—to paganism.” Read more...
Notable Nonfiction of Fall 2023
Sophie Roell, Journalist
Our most recommended books
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Portable Magic: A History of Books and Their Readers
by Emma Smith -
The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators between Qing China and the British Empire
by Henrietta Harrison -
African and Caribbean People in Britain: A History
by Hakim Adi -
Vagabonds
by Oskar Jensen -
The World the Plague Made: The Black Death and the Rise of Europe
by James Belich -
Resistance: The Underground War in Europe, 1939-1945
by Halik Kochanski
