13 May, 2013
An Atlas of Thought
David Armitage offers a suitably postmodern model for the exploration of international intellectual history.
Category: World Politics
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.
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.
21 January, 2013
Inscrutable Methods
Tom Cutterham struggles to identify the means to the ends of Marc Mulholland's Bourgeois Liberty.
4 June, 2012
Capital Rules
Charles Goodhart's The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision contains a mountain of material on global banking regulation.
21 May, 2012
Debtocracy
David Graeber's Debt: The First 5,000 Years explores the history of a concept with the same roots as "guilt" and "sin".
A Very Long Engagement
Nadine Gordimer's No Time Like the Present is a subtle attempt to surpass the revolutionary fatigue of modern South Africa.
23 April, 2012
In the Shadow of the General
Gavin Jacobson throws light on the complex backdrop to the first round of the 2012 French presidential election.
