Think About It
The seductions and delusions of mass media, consumerism, ‘group think’, advertising, opinion research and conspiracy theories.
Reviews
Why Europe? Y. Pestis?
How the societies that the Black Death affected were set on a path to global expansion.
Polished Off
A panoramic portrait of Józef Piłsudski, the man who ‘towers over modern Poland’.
Personality Flaws
Do leaders and leadership matter most at times of crisis?
The Body as Machine
The life of George Balanchine, the man behind a quintessential American ballet aesthetic.
‘Crassus’ by Peter Stothard review
Crassus: The First Tycoon by Peter Stothard follows Marcus Licinius Crassus on the Roman road to disaster in Parthia.
Books of the Year 2022
Our year in reading covers the year’s major anniversaries such as Partition, Stalingrad and the March on Rome as well as space travel, English law and, of course, the Tudors.
The ‘Jena Set’
The quiet German town that formed the backdrop for the first German Romantic movement.
For the Love of Manuscripts
Are people who lived in very different times and places united in their shared love of manuscripts?
For God (and us)
The histories of sixteen great cathedrals from Hagia Sophia to Santa Maria del Fiore.