Read The Looming Tower

Anne Applebaum's Pulitzer history of the Soviet camps from the archives.

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

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

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

Tracy Kidder inside Data General building a computer in 1979; the first great tech book.

Why Eurasia conquered the rest: geography, crops and animals rather than people; Diamond's Pulitzer.

A biography of cancer from ancient Egypt to gene therapy; Mukherjee's Pulitzer.

The first month of the First World War day by day; Tuchman's Pulitzer that Kennedy read during the missile crisis.