Read The Shadow of the Sun

Kapuscinski's first assignments abroad with the first historian in his pocket.

Haile Selassie's court told by its servants; Kapuscinski on power anywhere.

The fall of the Iranian monarchy in 1979 through photographs and fragments; Kapuscinski.

Fragments about travel, anatomy and a Chopin's heart smuggled to Warsaw; Tokarczuk's Booker International.

Voices of the liquidators, widows and resettled villagers; Alexievich's Nobel oral history.

Russians remember the end of the Soviet Union and the 1990s; Alexievich's chorus.

Tom Wolfe on the test pilots and the Mercury Seven.

Isabel Wilkerson follows three people in the Great Migration of six million Black Americans north.