How the West Got Rich, Shakespearean Leadership, a History of Magic, and More

Augustine’s Conversion, Square Elizabethan Theater, and a History of Bioluminescence

Tolstoy at Net, Augustine among the Barbarians, and Emily Dickinson’s Gardens

How Eichmann Was Caught, the Beauty of Topographical Maps, and Cold War Nostalgia

Baseball Books, Sequencing Leonardo, Dickens’s Minor Characters, and More

Hemingway’s Brawls, Petrarch’s Shadow, and Iron Maiden in China

The Real Casanova, Lenin’s Preserved Corpse, and the Future of Bullfighting

Another Renaissance Polymath, Life Between the Wars, and the Lesson of Thomas More’s ‘Utopia’

A Nightmarish ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’ and Botticelli’s Beauteous Divine Comedy

Prussia’s Enlightened Despot, the Real David Hume, and Dumb Political Phrases Analyzed