Books
Marshalling India’s maharajahs
Dethroned: The Downfall of India’s Princely States by John Zubrzycki
Encouraging evil for the common good
Mansfield does not condemn him: rather refreshingly he exhilarates in Machiavelli’s genius
Could it be magic?
Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa by Anthony Grafton
Intellectual property
Property: The Myth that built the World by Rowan Moore
From cholera to coronavirus
A forgotten novel offers insights into living with a deadly and dehumanising pandemic
Light from darkness
Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family and Social Class by Rob Henderson
Healers who harm
Bad Therapy: Why The Kids Aren’t Growing Up by Abigail Shrier
The misanthropic history man
Yuval Noah Harari has become an intellectual superstar, but his predictions have become wilder and sillier
Kilkenny’s golden age
A fascinating exploration of Irish history could have been better and more comprehensively illustrated
Playing the victim
A new book satirises the bizarre dynamics of social justice activism