Every so often, you come across a book of nonfiction that is more gripping in its plot and richer in its understanding of human beings than a thousand novels put together. One such book is Edmund ...

From a hillside three miles northeast of Finland, for 30 years during the Cold War, the U.S. Air Force watched the skies for any unknown aircraft entering U.S. airspace. The Finland Air Force Station ...

TO THE FINLAND STATION—Edmund Wilson—Harcourt, Brace ($4). The Finland Station is a shabby, grey and pink stucco building. Here trains from free Finland arrive in Leningrad. Here, on the night of ...

In "Not So Dire Straits" (January/February 2010), Bruce Gilley seeks to explain the dynamics underlying current relations among the Republic of China (Taiwan), the People's Republic of China (PRC), ...

Deep in the Great Depression, when many Americans were questioning whether capitalism had failed them, the influential leftist literary critic Edmund Wilson sailed off to Russia with an open mind ...

We’ve heard it all, and it’s all compelling. Finland does it right in every area of education, from school-based management to teacher preparation to the length of the school year to assigning ...

Author Aravind Adiga was not interested in stuffy classics or long, drawn-out historical accounts. But Edmund Wilson's history of socialism, To... All Aboard Historical Thriller 'Finland Station' ...