Reviews

Those pushing the burgeoning field of Classical Reception Studies probably hadn’t intended to leave the door ajar for heavy metal.

Everything you thought you knew about the Aztecs is wrong.

An outsider’s observations from the moments before China’s Cultural Revolution.

A far-reaching account of the significance of menopause in human evolution.

Getting intimate with America’s only bachelor president.

How educated exiles transformed Irkutsk into ‘the Paris of Siberia’.

The interface between politics and war, rather than military strategy and tactics.

The allure of the sun-burnished boulevards of Marseille remains intact.

The religious politics that reshaped 17th-century England and Scotland and propelled many towards transatlantic migration.

Were humanist free-thinkers the engineers of magic’s decline?