What to read in 2022: non-fiction
From politics and science to history and pop, the essential books for the year ahead.
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From politics and science to history and pop, the essential books for the year ahead.
ByThe year's essential reading in 20 titles.
ByThe late David Graeber’s history of early human societies presents civilisation as a descent from anarchy into servility. But was…
ByHow Margaret Thatcher consolidated her power – not thanks to the Falklands War, but because of an opposition that underestimated…
ByThe historian was prescient in warning that the value of facts depends on who wields them.
ByThe mental illness of monarchs has been a fruitful subject for historians, but in Henry VI's case his illness led…
ByFor many, it is the Salem witch trials that immediately spring to mind when thinking about the topic. But there…
ByStephen Greenblatt's book is a pellucid and absorbing account of the Biblical tale's great significance.
ByTwo histories of the Holocaust reveal the what we didn't know about the concentration camps.
ByNew studies by Edward Wakeling and Robert Douglas-Fairhurst uncover the story of one of literature's most debated men.
ByThe danger of using current terminology and identities when discussing the past, especially marginalised and oppressed pasts, is that it…
ByReading Johnson’s The Churchill Factor is like “being harangued for hours by Bertie Wooster” writes Richard J Evans.
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