Two books present vivid accounts of right-wing movements that seek to undermine the modern regulatory state, or what conspiracists call “the deep state.” ...

Delving beneath the disappointments and complexities of national politics, three new books illuminate the dynamism of urban life in the Americas.

These two books describe how American doctors were linked to troubling events during World War II that raised thorny moral issues around medicine and war.

Pacheco Pardo provides a short but fact-filled primer on North Korea. He swiftly traces the development of Korea from a unitary state in the seventh century BC to the division of the peninsula in the ...

A really noteworthy book. The author, a French professor of English literature and culture, takes the coal problem as a reflection of the social crisis in post-war England. After studying the coal ...

These meticulously researched books illuminate the history of two storied Russian military outfits. Bukkvoll, a Norwegian defense analyst, uses a vast range of sources to put together a comprehensive ...