Reviewed in short: New books from Graham Caveney, Giles Tremlett, Charlotte Van den Broeck and Chitra Ramaswamy
On Agoraphobia by Caveney, España: A Brief History of Spain by Tremlett, Bold Ventures by Van den Broeck and Homelands:…
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On Agoraphobia by Caveney, España: A Brief History of Spain by Tremlett, Bold Ventures by Van den Broeck and Homelands:…
ByThe online world is run by tech companies that we depend on but deeply distrust. New books by Justin EH…
ByA new history of the Westerners who fought with Gandhi to free India from British rule has lessons for the…
ByIn Hugh Raffles' profound, genre-straddling new book, stones and minerals reveal the pain of loss and the secrets of time.
ByA new book by Bill Browder reveals the bravery of a young lawyer who uncovered a £185m state-sponsored tax fraud.
ByThe Poseidon Project by Bosco, Portable Magic by Smith, Edith and Kim by Philby and Border Zone by Agard.
ByThe competition, founded 150 years ago, has become a reflection of English football’s conflicted soul.
ByThe tech billionaire believes business can shield us from future diseases – but the market is part of the problem.
ByUneasy with his fame and fiercely private, the post-rock pioneer left behind a musical legacy of extraordinary beauty.
ByThe latest Wisden reflects a turbulent year in which the sport has been forced to confront racism and incompetence.
ByDaisy Dunn’s charismatic interwar history of Oxford illuminates the wide influence of the celebrated classicist and his circle.
ByA New Formation edited by Calum Jacobs, The Odyssey by Lara Williams, The Young Alexander by Alex Rowson and Glory…
ByTwo new books about our relationship to song prove there will always be new ways to write about music.
ByThe exhilarating narrative explores the complex boundaries between the natural and man-made world in rural life.
ByThe ghost of a more interesting narrative hovers over Elizabeth Finch, which is a novel not of ideas but of…
ByNew works by the journalists Tina Brown and Robert Hardman question whether the monarchy can survive without radical reform.
ByThe Premonitions Bureau by Sam Knight is a propulsive but flawed examination of the rationality of chance.
BySimon Kuper’s book Chums tells the story of how one university taught the core of today’s Brexit government how to…
ByIn his new history the economist chronicles how humanity escaped subsistence poverty, bringing prosperity, longevity and lasting inequality.
ByNo Excuses by Colwell, Straits by Fernández-Armesto, Bless the Daughter Raised By a Voice In Her Head by Shire and…
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