Books
Standing tall on an uncluttered horizon
The best new fiction of 2022
The madness of crowds
Andrew Doyle has been warning about Critical Social Justice for years, and he kept the receipts
Anglican age of a thousand churches
The Church of England offered a necessary bulwark against the tempests of change
Princeton’s friend of the Iranian people
Reza Aslan’s flawed account is better than nothing
A magisterial study of war and strategy
Jeremy Black deals a fatal blow to Napoleon’s reputation as a military genius
Running the rule over ages of empire
A quietly devastating rebuttal to the cruder anti-imperialist critiques of our superficially revolutionary times
Britain’s archipelago of shame
The UK’s treatment of Chagossians doesn’t amount to a crime against humanity
Egypt’s secret Nazi brains trust
After a humiliating defeat in the war over Israel, the Egyptians wanted revenge
The feud that felled the Roman Republic
The personal differences between Caesar and Cato mattered
New tunes from a hatful of old songs
We approach Dylan’s both peerless and wildly uneven catalogue only through the after-image of his dazzling prime