Books

Atlases aren’t dead yet

Jeremy Black pores over the latest offerings from the scholarly literature on cartography

Doggy style

Bestialists, radical agriculturalists and fashionable intellectuals will enjoy this book, especially the pictures

How to fix our broken justice system

In a world of superficial identity politics, Alexandra Wilson’s book offers a nuanced narrative

England’s Caravaggio

Matthew Craske’s book challenges the prevailing idea of Joseph Wright as product and servant of rationalism and Enlightenment

Gulliver’s travails

Gekoski focuses the protagonist’s nightmarish vilification around the career and writings of Jonathan Swift

What makes a Penguin Classic?

Alexander Larman talks to the Creative Editor of Penguin Classics, Henry Eliot about what makes a ‘modern classic’

A life in miniature

‘Finding Dora Maar: An Artist, an Address Book, a Life’ is Brigitte Benkemoun’s discovery of the provenance of the address book and what it told her about the owner’s life

Michael Ashcroft on the rise of Rishi Sunak: what is he thinking? What does he intend?

In this podcast, Graham Stewart talks to Michael Ashcroft, whose new book is the first biography to be written about the Chancellor of the Exchequer

Festive nuts and spice

Nancy Mitford’s 1932 festive novella ‘Christmas Pudding’ is the tonic 2020 is crying out for

Former spin doctor divulges on India’s ruling dynasty

Sanjay Jha’s new book reveals the degeneration of the oldest party in the world’s largest democracy