Books

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

Exploding the Anglosphere Dream

Is canzuk revivalism scary enough to need book-length refutation?

A farewell to Carmen

Why will there be no more Carmen Callils?

The pontiff who looked the other way

David Kertzer unearths dramatic evidence from recently-released Vatican files