4 April, 2011
Reinier van Straten
Simon Sebag Montefiore's Jerusalem: The Biography excavates the sacred city's memories and historical multiplicity.
Oliver Cussen
Niall Ferguson's Civilization anatomises reasons for Western ascendancy, while predicting the West's relative decline.
14 March, 2011
James McComish
Jonathan Steinberg's Bismarck: A Life proffers fresh insight into the Iron Chancellor's psyche.
Frederick Deknatel
An exhibition of a car destroyed by a bomb in Baghdad provokes conversations about civilian suffering in war.
3 March, 2011
Jonathan Leader Maynard
Classifying Stalin's crimes as genocide
28 February, 2011
Tom Cutterham
Fred Inglis's A Short History of Celebrity tours 300 years of celebrity culture, from London theatres to Hollywood screens.
7 June, 2010
Oliver Cussen
Jonathan Israel's Revolution of the Mind
24 May, 2010
Tom Cutterham
The Human Face of the Dismal Science
1 March, 2010
Scott Moore
Alwyn Scarth's Vesuvius: A Biography
