Owen Hatherley offers a vital but frequently flawed guide to post-war British architecture

Enough of reformers who want to turn schools upside-down without knowing which way is up

A new history of Byzantium reveals the inner workings of a late antique empire

It is her words and voice, not her purported identity, that matter to her fans

The brilliant story of a Francis Bacon exhibition in Moscow

Gal Beckerman’s history of how high-speed communication prevents social change

Chuck Klosterman’s book sheds rose-tinted light on the decade

If abolition was capitalist propaganda, what of corporate involvement in social justice?

Escaped from Nazi Germany, a teenage boy found himself a prisoner in Britain

Michael Crick casts Farage as an almost vampiric figure, draining the life from others to sustain his decades of dominance