In the shadows of these histories, however, lie great sports stories of everyday Black Bostonians who forged their own sporting traditions under prejudiced conditions. “ : A Contested Sports History , ...
Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review. In “Open Socrates,” the scholar Agnes Callard argues that the ancient Greek ...
In his new book, the acclaimed historian of the Nazis, Laurence Rees, takes a forensic look at how the authoritarian regime rose to power and the ordinary citizens who let it happen. Nine of the 12 ...