17 May, 2013
Category: Politics & Society
13 May, 2013
An Atlas of Thought
David Armitage offers a suitably postmodern model for the exploration of international intellectual history.
18 March, 2013
Laptops for Goalposts
Jonathan Wilson's history of the goalkeeper emerges as an allegory for the passionate but peripheral role of the football fan.
17 February, 2013
The Fat Sheep’s Tails
William Dalrymple's history of the British invasion of Afghanistan in 1839 draws on new archival material to paint a rich picture of its subject, Nakul Krishna writes.
Blow Up Media Studies
Emma Park takes umbrage with Toby Miller's gunpowder plot for the humanities as we know it.
Any Other Name
Rebecca Loxton looks for Salman Rushdie in the cracks between fact and fiction that appear in his memoir.
4 February, 2013
Gripping the Prison Bars
Dominic Davies looks into the extraordinary work and the intolerable circumstances of the nobel prize-winning poet Liu Xiaobo.
The Economy of Writing
Tom Cutterham considers money, the writing classes, and literary magazines in a new anthology from n+1 that contains some real gems.
21 January, 2013
Inscrutable Methods
Tom Cutterham struggles to identify the means to the ends of Marc Mulholland's Bourgeois Liberty.
