Simon Evans says Andrew Doyle’s book is the toolkit you need to think about at least one side of this debate

Jonathon Green wonders if, despite this being a fascinating book, the author has set herself up for defeat

When a new major title by a big cheese arrives, expect a tidal wave of rolled logs

Baddiel is concerned in this short, polemical book with Jews being “left out”

We need a system where books that publishers really love, where it’s not mere puff, get a special sticker on the front, says John Self

Jeremy Black says McMeekin’s account provides tough reading for anybody endorsing the Guardian’s view of history

The Happy Traitor tells Blake’s story in a witty and sophisticated way, fully alert to its complexities and ironies

Nick Cohen on the ill-starred but seductive love affair between writers and alcohol

Paul du Quenoy learns how this enclave for the American elite shifted from swamp to swank in Russell Kelley’s: An Illustrated History of Palm Beach

Dan Hicks, The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Cultural Violence and Cultural Restitution (Pluto Press)