Books

A pair of debut novels revive the serious business of art history

Walter Russell Mead offers a counterblast to claims of a pro-Israel lobby influencing US politics

Bespoke wealth management services were made available to some of the world’s nastiest criminals

After all this drama, what kind of England ultimately emerged?

Sunni or Shia, Muslim or Christian, modern or pre-modern — messianism retains a potent attraction

Heilbron writes with authority and – what is more unusual – genuine passion

This book is not a history of ideas, nor book history, nor cultural history, but something much more

Historic house inventories provide a remarkable insight into building histories

A new book on journalism gets it wrong

A tribute to Victorian churches