Big Strategy: Ian Morris’s Geography is Destiny

Patriots with Benefits: Eric Jay Dolin’s Rebels at Sea

Life at the Top: Toby Wilkinson’s The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt

Imperial Free-for-All: William Dalrynmple’s The Anarchy

Lesser than the Sum of its Parts: Dominic Lieven’s In the Shadow of the Gods

Calm Before the Storm: A Historical Retrospective on 2023

Pell-Mell Towards the Abyss: David Nichols’ Eisenhower 1956

Book Club: Empire of Guns, by Priya Satia

Treading the (Ship)boards: Lincoln Paine’s The Sea & Civilization