What We Are Reading Today: Fateful Hours by Volker Ullrich

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Updated 31 December 2025
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What We Are Reading Today: Fateful Hours by Volker Ullrich

Volker Ullrich’s “Fateful Hours” chronicles the captivating story of the Weimar Republic, charting the many failed alternatives and missed opportunities that contributed to German democracy’s collapse.

Drawing on letters, memoirs, newspaper articles, and other sources, Ullrich argues that, right up until January 1933, history was open and that there was no shortage of opportunities to stop the slide into fascism.


What We Are Reading Today: ‘Make Your Manuscript Work’ by Laura Portwood-Stacer

Updated 10 February 2026
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What We Are Reading Today: ‘Make Your Manuscript Work’ by Laura Portwood-Stacer

Developmental editing holds the power to make a manuscript connect with publishers and readers, yet few scholarly writers have the training to do it well.

“Make Your Manuscript Work” offers a practical method for assessing and refining the features of their texts that matter most—argument, evidence, structure, and style.

This guide shows scholarly writers how to identify what’s been holding their writing back and fix it so they can accomplish their publication goals.