Books
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
American idealists in hell
Roland Elliott Brown reviews The Russian Job by Douglas Smith