Books

Insight of a prolix pluralist

Christopher Bray reviews The Philosophy of Isaiah Berlin by Johnny Lyons

He was right all along

Michael Bentley reviews The Englightenment that Failed by Jonathon Israel

Adventures in La-La Land

Simon Callow reviews A Fate Worse than Hollywood by David Ambrose

P is for Plum Pudding

Jonathon Green reviews A Place for Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order by Judith Flanders

Blown fusionism: is a common enemy enough?

Ed West, Small Men on the Wrong Side of History

Picturing Colonial Africa

Alexander Adams reviews Postcards from Africa: Photographs of the Colonial Era, by Christraud M. Geary

Discussing Magic

Jeremy Black reviews The Decline of Magic: Britain in the Enlightenment, by Michael Hunter

British Crime Classics

Jeremy Black’s recommendations for a murderous British genre

Of mice and writing advice

Tibor Fischer reviews Consider This by Chuck Palahniuk

Inveterate ignoramus

Christopher Bray reviews History and Imperialism by Louis Althusser