Books

The products of deeply felt faith and painfully acquired skills

A grim new book about racism fails to make its case

Killings amid the crunch of leaves

An important, if difficult, contribution to debates around sex and gender

Young people are not being encouraged or inspired

The story of the Middle East cannot be explained without religion

Could a progressive historian really write in praise of African slave-traders?

Máiría Cahill’s shocking memoir of growing up in a Belfast enclave

Few who sought to understand Hegel have got the gist of the Geist

Wherever French see merde, there’s someone over the Manche to appreciate a picturesque glitter