Books

Discussing Magic

Jeremy Black reviews The Decline of Magic: Britain in the Enlightenment, by Michael Hunter

British Crime Classics

Jeremy Black’s recommendations for a murderous British genre

Of mice and writing advice

Tibor Fischer reviews Consider This by Chuck Palahniuk

Inveterate ignoramus

Christopher Bray reviews History and Imperialism by Louis Althusser

American idealists in hell

Roland Elliott Brown reviews The Russian Job by Douglas Smith

The unhappy iconoclast of the Right

J. C. D Clark reviews Conservative Revolutionary: The Lives of Lewis Namier by D. W. Hayton

Triumph of the horrible game

Michael Henderson reviews The Age of Football: The Global Game in the Twenty-first Century by David Goldblatt

Riotous tale of a vivid life, superbly lived

Alexander Larman reviews Lady in Waiting: My extraordinary life in the shadow of the crown, by Anne Glenconner

Can hurt feelings trump free speech?

Douglas Murray reviews What Snowflakes Get Right: Free Speech, Truth and Equality on Campus by Ulrich Baer

Speaking power to truth

Patrick Porter reviews The Education of an Idealist by Samantha Power