NBCC Award–winning artist Krug (Belonging) adapts Snyder’s 2017 bestseller into a graphic edition, with intricate, eerie collages that interpret historically informed “lessons” offered in response to ...

This week we are bringing you a conversation that Literary Arts hosted in October 2025 with historian and political philosopher Timothy Snyder, author of “On Tyranny,” who spoke about his book On ...

It was one of those uncanny nights when everything blurs and then clarifies. It was July 20, 2017, and my family had just arrived in Warsaw. A protest march was underway in defense of an independent ...

Timothy Snyder’s “On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From the Twentieth Century” appeared in 2017 during a time of postelection panic in the United States. His deep knowledge as a historian of modern Europe ...

Alexander Hamilton published political pamphlets. Benjamin Franklin did, too. So did Thomas Paine, Samuel Adams, Mercy Otis Warren, Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells-Barnett and numerous other ...

It is no accident that “On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century” by Timothy Snyder has remained on the bestseller list since it was first published in 2017. Snyder, who teaches at Yale ...