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“Rachel Kousser\u2019s new biography, \u201cAlexander at the End of the World: The Forgotten Final Years of Alexander the Great,\u201d is a breath of fresh air on its subject. Kousser neatly sums up the myth of Alexander\u2019s \u201ctrajectory from upstanding Macedonian monarch to corrupt, violent Oriental despot\u201d and then spends a few hundred pages refuting it.” \u2014 Valerie Castellanos Clark, Los Angeles Times<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Reviewed in El Pa\u00eds<\/em>, December 24, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alexander the Great: destroyer, creator, rebuilder<\/a>, Smarthistory<\/em>, April 10, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Books by Graduate Center Authors Can Spice Up the Holidays,<\/a> November 29, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ATW interview with Rachel Kousser<\/a>, Advice to Writers<\/em>, October 8, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ilyon Woo and Rachel Kousser on the Power of a Writing Partnership<\/a>, The Craft of Writing newsletter, Lithub<\/em>, October 2, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAn Interview with Rachel Kousser,\u201d<\/a> John Grady, September 10, 2024, Washington Independent Review of Books<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Unable to stand still, the 32-year-old conqueror was on the cusp of invading Arabia when death intervened. It was this final stage of his military career \u2014 teeming with brutality, conspiracies, compromises, failures, reversals and near mutinies \u2014 that, Kousser argues, made him great. Her prose is bracing and her descriptive powers rise admirably to the task of portraying the world in which Alexander operated.” \u2014 Justin Marozzi, New York Times<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“A thoughtful, elegant study that sheds new light on an endlessly fascinating historical figure.” \u2014 Kirkus Reviews<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Kousser puts flesh and bone on the world-beating figure who has long been ossified into a boring lesson in hubris. Oh he has hubris by the buckets, but Alexander has so much more and Kousser plumbs his contradictions and likely motivations with skill and verve.” \u2014 Michael Giltz, Parade.com (Best New Book Releases This Month)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Best Reviewed Books of the Month<\/a>,\u201d Bookmarks, Lithub, <\/em>July 31, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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