Books

Cleopatra is not a terrible movie, but this failed Hollywood history is

From the Mongols’ conquest of Persia to their defeat by the Mamluks

The unsound architecture of the Edwardian Baroque

Classics resurrected and new bodies laid to rest

Spinoza may be the master thinker to whom we owe modernity itself

The ultra-processed food scare is a backwards step for science

David Grann writes the definitive tale of the Wager’s descent into madness

John Gray extends his dark critique of the modern world