From highly anticipated series conclusions to exciting new releases, these are our picks for the best fantasy books of April.

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The essay collection “Silent Catastrophes” explores how we might navigate the end of empire and the rise of authoritarianism.

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The Ukrainian Marxist Roman Rosdolsky was one of the pioneering scholars of Marxology. He was engaged as a Marxist activist and social scientist in spaces ranging from European cities like Lviv, ...

While this trend's popularity spread quickly on social media, it had other impacts as well; it launched a 1,900-year-old ...

A team of archaeologists may have discovered evidence of the biblical Battle of Megiddo, where Josiah, the king of Judah, was ...

The first thing to say about laissez-faire liberalism is that it arose in Europe, specifically in Western Christendom. This ...

Director Alex Scharfman tells IndieWire about some of the (real) references for the horned monsters in his A24 film.

Official history asserts that the Jewish people have existed continuously from the time of Abraham to the present day, thanks ...

Knowledge of the past is essential but comparisons between the leaders and events of different eras have their limits ...