16 December, 2012
The Possibility of Sanity
Sarah Wise brings narrative elegance and scholarly rigour to her study of Victorian madness, Kalika Sands writes.
Category: Politics & Society
18 November, 2012
Mapping the Contradictions
Slavoj Žižek’s latest is a familiar rehearsal of his ideological analysis, taking aim at the "salaried bourgeoisie", Joe Kennedy writes.
The Cloud of Unknowing
Liz Sawyer reports on former BBC Director General Mark Thompson's classically-inspired call for a renewed public discourse.
4 November, 2012
Urban Renaissance Travelogue
A New Kind of Bleak is an acerbic, if sometimes alienating critique of pseudo-modernism, finds Owen Hopkins.
7 October, 2012
The Imperialism of PE
Houman Barekat finds Marc Perelman's Barbaric Sport unconvincing, and laced with contempt for 'the spectating mass'.
Bigger, More Competitive, More Complex
What is the origin of social inequality? In The Creation of Inequality, two archaeologists update Rousseau, but with flaws of their own.
Caste Rule
Jonathan Priestland's engaging history of power Merchant, Soldier, Sage curiously omits a fourth, undervalued caste: the workers.
