A Soviet-era Central Asian pop music anthology shines a light on the region's ethnic diversity and music that transcends genres from Korean brass bands to Uyghur garage rock to Crimean jazz.

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The siege of Budapest, one of World War II’s longest urban battles, saw relentless street combat and left the city in ruins.

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Novelist Namwali Serpell, writing in The New Yorker recently, coined a phrase that’s lingered in my mind every day since.

The Soviet Union boasted an unbroken streak of world ... “He wanted to show Spassky that he, firstly, didn’t fear him at all,” Krogius wrote in his diary, “and, secondly, that he was ...