Summer 2025

Books chosen to stretch the mind and feed the imagination—from Voltaire's razor-sharp mockery of optimism to the crimes of a Belgian king, with a hunt for the mysterious Velázquez, the economic forces shaping our world, and a Sicilian prince watching his world dissolve along the way.

The Leopard
Giuseppe di Lampedusa
Historical Novel
  
Candide
Voltaire
Satirical Novella
  
The Vanishing Man: In Pursuit of Velázquez
Laura Cumming
Art Historical Biography
  
Power and Progress
Daron Acemoglu & Simon Johnson
Economic History Treatise
  
King Leopold’s Ghost
Adam Hochschild
Historical Narrative
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