Editors’ Picks
Reading Bulgakov Whole: Choosing the Right Master and Margarita
The Master and Margarita Print vs Kindle vs Audiobook is best settled in favour of print for a serious first…
A Pocket Canon in Black: Where to Start with Penguin Little Black Classics
Penguin Little Black Classics look like a miniature canon, but their real achievement is sharper: they turn the Penguin Classics…
Reading Dumas at Full Speed: Seven Three Musketeers Editions Worth Choosing
Best Edition of The Three Musketeers is primarily a translation question disguised as a purchasing question. Alexandre Dumas's Les Trois…
A Library Made to Be Kept: The Case for Penguin Clothbound Classics
This Penguin Clothbound Classics review reaches a qualified verdict: the series is worth collecting when you want readable Penguin texts…
Opium, Empire, and the Making of Modern China: Seven Books on the Opium Wars
Modern History The best books on the Opium Wars do more than recount battles between Britain and Qing China. Read…
Reading Marxism Without the Slogans: A Six-Book Path from Marx to Gramsci
Marxism for Beginners becomes much easier once Marx himself is separated from the political systems, parties, later doctrines, and twentieth-century…
Twenty Books That Changed How We Understand World War II
Modern History The best World War II books are not simply the loudest sellers or the most familiar classroom titles.…
At the Threshold of a New Century: Ten Books That Made 1800
best books of 1800 belong to a year poised awkwardly between historical periods. The French Revolution had formally ended with…
