Books
Two portraits of troubled art scholars
A pair of debut novels revive the serious business of art history
The roots of U.S. support for Israel
Walter Russell Mead offers a counterblast to claims of a pro-Israel lobby influencing US politics
The bank that grew fat on cocaine
Bespoke wealth management services were made available to some of the world’s nastiest criminals
Building a new world on the ruins of the old
After all this drama, what kind of England ultimately emerged?
Militantly waiting for the end of time
Sunni or Shia, Muslim or Christian, modern or pre-modern — messianism retains a potent attraction
Time doesn’t fly in Bianchini’s company
Heilbron writes with authority and – what is more unusual – genuine passion
The Enlightenment as reading project
This book is not a history of ideas, nor book history, nor cultural history, but something much more
A fabulous box of geeky delights
Historic house inventories provide a remarkable insight into building histories
Tabloid fiction
A new book on journalism gets it wrong
Glowing, noble and assured
A tribute to Victorian churches