Books

Dethroned: The Downfall of India’s Princely States by John Zubrzycki

Mansfield does not condemn him: rather refreshingly he exhilarates in Machiavelli’s genius

Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa by Anthony Grafton

Property: The Myth that built the World by Rowan Moore

A forgotten novel offers insights into living with a deadly and dehumanising pandemic

Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family and Social Class by Rob Henderson

Bad Therapy: Why The Kids Aren’t Growing Up by Abigail Shrier

Yuval Noah Harari has become an intellectual superstar, but his predictions have become wilder and sillier

A fascinating exploration of Irish history could have been better and more comprehensively illustrated

A new book satirises the bizarre dynamics of social justice activism