22 October, 2012
Katie Low
Katie Low assesses Aloys Winterling's biography of Caligula, a young man exulting in the possession of enormous power.
Judyta Frodyma
Judyta Frodyma finds The Old Ways tows readers along a narcissistic path of self-indulgent prose.
7 October, 2012
Sirio Canos i Donnay
What is the origin of social inequality? In The Creation of Inequality, two archaeologists update Rousseau, but with flaws of their own.
Harriet Fitch Little
Jonathan Priestland's engaging history of power Merchant, Soldier, Sage curiously omits a fourth, undervalued caste: the workers.
21 May, 2012
Musab Younis
David Graeber's Debt: The First 5,000 Years explores the history of a concept with the same roots as "guilt" and "sin".
7 May, 2012
Paul Scott
Heike B. Görtemaker's Eva Braun is a chilling portrait of Nazi Germany that is frustratingly opaque about its ostensible subject.
26 March, 2012
Alexander Barker
Giorgio Agamben's The Kingdom and the Glory argues for the continuing relevance of medieval conceptions of the state.
Will Pooley
Matthew Gerber's Bastards offers a frustratingly legalistic account of the social role of illegitimacy.
30 January, 2012
Nicolas Stone Villani
Annabel S. Brett's Changes of State analyses the legal paradoxes surrounding the historical definition of statehood.
