From the December 2023 Issue Feeding the Great Bear What’s Cooking in the Kremlin: From Rasputin to Putin, How Russia Built an Empire with a Knife and Fork By Witold Szabłowski (Translated from Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones) LR
From the March 2023 Issue Return to Krakowiec A Small Town in Ukraine: The Place We Came From, The Place We Went Back To By Bernard Wasserstein LR
From the December 2021 Issue Home of the Cherry Tree Troubled Water: A Journey around the Black Sea By Jens Mühling (Translated from German by Simon Pare) LR
From the February 2021 Issue Helicopters over Ankara A Coup in Turkey: A Tale of Democracy, Despotism and Vengeance in a Divided Land By Jeremy Seal LR
From the November 2019 Issue Sultan on Speed Dial Erdoğan Rising: The Battle for the Soul of Turkey By Hannah Lucinda Smith
From the December 2017 Issue Forces in a Vacuum Lost Kingdom: A History of Russian Nationalism from Ivan the Great to Vladimir Putin By Serhii Plokhy The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia By Masha Gessen LR
From the April 2017 Issue Kremlin Watch Who Lost Russia? How the World Entered a New Cold War By Peter Conradi LR
From the March 2015 Issue The Oligarchy Will Be Televised Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: Adventures in Modern Russia By Peter Pomerantsev LR
From the October 2014 Issue The City that Never Slept Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul By Charles King LR
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