Significant works reviewed by Engelsberg Ideas writers.
The clan saga is a common theme in Chinese literature and, in a new memoir, a journalist returns to his family's homeland and the history of China's turbulent 20th century.
During the early years of the 13th century, Philip II of France tried to take the crown of England from a troubled and unpopular King John. The war that followed marked a crucial m..
The Soviet Union believed that they were manifestly destined to lead the world to a higher future yet that masked a profound insecurity about their status in the international orde..
After his death, Nietzsche's work was mutilated by malign editing, imprecise interpretation and forever associated with 20th-century fascism. The German philosopher owes his more n..
The Allied Intervention into the Russian Civil War contributed to America’s inter-war isolationism and intensified the Soviet Union's paranoid fear of encirclement.
The history of the 19th-century Holy Alliance between the monarchist great powers of Austria, Prussia and Russia shows how hard it is to maintain complex federal systems in a world..
Katherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Katherine Howard and Katherine Parr were distinct and individual women, each compelling in their own right, and not ..
Britain’s countryside is in a bad way, even by the standards of fraught global ecologies, but sentimental and spiritual interpretations of its plight detract from the urgency.
Some writers — George Eliot, Thomas Mann, Saul Bellow — are thinkers, but James Salter was a doer who loved danger. The urgent quality of his prose was a function of the intensity ..
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