The Nobel literature committee picked controversial winners in Olga Tokarczuk of Poland and Peter Handke of Austria. The Swedish Academy handed out the double prize for literature on Thursday after canceling last year’s award due to a sex abuse scandal involving committee members.

For this week’s Saturday Series, we excerpt, courtesy of Simon & Schuster, Anatomy of a Genocide, a book that needs a big “Caution: Brutality” warning on it. Omer Bartov’s masterpiece of ground-level history shows that for more than four centuries in the Eastern European border town of Buczacz (now in Western Ukraine), Poles, Ukrainians, and Jews mostly got along.

Has any other vice president had so much biographical ink spilled on his life?

Journalists have offered four biographies on Mike Pence in his first 2½ years in office. Three of them are useful from different angles.

WORLD’s mission statement is “Biblically objective journalism that informs, educates, and inspires.” That may sound strange on first hearing, because we often equate “objectivity” with neutrality, but a book of mine just published by P&R, Reforming Journalism, explains a Christian understanding that cuts against secular views. Here is an excerpt from Chapter 3. Look for an excerpt from Chapter 4 as part of our Saturday Series on Nov. 2.

Based on 27 years of letters from WORLD readers, history books are our favorite genre—so this year’s fall reading list highlights recent history books aimed at general readers and students. I’ll start with good news about overall American history books and follow that with a look at books about specific historical periods from conservative, liberal, academic, and Christian publishers.

Sophie and the Heidelberg Cat 

Andrew Wilson

State of Lies

Siri Mitchell