Drugged Nazis, W.E.B. Du Bois, a poisoning in Russia

This week on nybooks.com: Nazis and drugs, W.E.B. Du Bois, and the people around Trump. Plus more on consciousness, and the case of a Putin critic poisoned—for the second time. In the Review [The Very Drugged Nazis]( Antony Beevor Drugs were depicted as part of a Jewish plot to poison and weaken the nation, but nobody became more dependent on cocktails of drugs than Hitler. [Who Was W.E.B. Du Bois?]( Nicholas Lemann Du Bois’s very long life coincided almost exactly with the period in African-American history between slavery and citizenship. [Terrifying Trump]( Elizabeth Drew When he’s outside his few fixed views, Trump is a curiously malleable figure, which makes all the more critical who he’s chosen to have around him. In the current issue Joan Didion in the Deep South How Everything Became War Flaubert: The Tragic Historian Tripoli Nights with a Master of Arabic From Bacteria to Bach and Back Betrayal in Jerusalem New York’s Big Flop [and more]( NYR Daily [Am I the Apple?]( Riccardo Manzotti and Tim Parks The fifth in a series of conversations about consciousness [‘Total Catastrophe of the Body’: A Russian Story]( Masha Gessen On February 2, Vladimir Kara-Murza suddenly felt ill. [A Treasure Trove of Edward Gorey]( Eve Bowen The New York Review of Books 435 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10014 [Preferences]( | [Unsubscribe](