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