In the continents-spanning 16th-century clash between Venice and the Ottoman Empire, a crucial role was played by Albania - and by two families at the heart of events

At the end of the 14th century, Lorenzo de' Medici and the friar Savonarola began a series of clashes in palace and pulpit that would end up altering the course of the city's history. A lively new book tells the story.

A new edition of this collection of Holocaust diaries by young people captures the voices and the worries of the Nazis' most innocent victims

A newly-reprinted biography of the "Iron Chancellor" Otto von Bismarck is noticeably short - what kind of a job does it do?

In his brilliant new book, Jedediah Purdy argues that humanity must face the collapse of nature using the three tools it knows best: politics, policy, and cold, hard cash

Yale University Press publishes a 2005 memoir by the 2014 winner of the Nobel Prize for literature

The great ancient Indian emperor Ashoka gets a splendid new biography that attempts to divine the man at the heart of the legend

Veteran New Yorker writer William Finnegan has written a captivating memoir of surfing and growing up

A lively new book explores the minds and behaviors of many of Earth's cetaceans

The settled opinion of historians has always been that President Eisenhower personally hated his vice president, Richard Nixon; a vigorous, unmissable new book tries to set that record straight