During the Cold War, the CIA may have had as much success with books and magazines as with gun-running and spies.

Forget James Bond. George Minden was the real thing. A Romanian aristocrat by birth, he could have spent his days in manor ...

The Jewish communist Ben Gold’s recently reissued 1944 novel, Your Comrade, Avreml Broide, offers a glimpse into a world in which a radical tradition of egalitarianism and cosmopolitanism overshadowed ...

Common Sense Media editors help you choose Books About the American Revolution. Colonists rise up in exciting stories of rebellion and forging a nation.

Plus: a new novel from Gary Shteyngart, a true story of a shipwreck, and a memoir from a wrongly incarcerated inmate who was ...

In a newly translated biography, Maurizio Serra pierces the self-mythologizing of the acclaimed writer Curzio Malaparte, who ...

book describes only a partial history; history only limited to relatively small number of facts known to a few survivors of communist genocides, history of repressions, both political and civilian, by ...

Xi Zhongxun, the father of Xi Jinping, was a high-ranking Communist official under Mao. He fell from grace but later returned ...

Charlie English delves into the CIA's attempts to combat communism via literature including '1984' in a book that reminds, in ...

Bluestockings Cooperative, the radical bookstore on the Lower East Side, is running out of books. The worker-owned collective faced eviction in 2023 after neighbors complained that its mutual aid ...

While many learned about the American Revolution as beginning in the Northeast, some may not know Florida's role in the nation's founding.