Books
Why do we review books?
D.J. Taylor reflects on nearly four decades of hard graft on the literary pages
Airline Maps: A century of art and design
An enjoyable visual book that acts as a history of aviation
A good read but variable as history
A Short History of London is good on architecture but a more sophisticated analysis is needed
A flawed first draft of history
Theresa May’s former political secretary on the biography that doesn’t get her right
The great inquisitor of Splott
John Humphrys’ A Day Like Today touches lightly on his early career, which is a shame
Eternal resurrection
James Orr reviews Tom Holland’s Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind
The brutal purging of God
Giles Udy on Godless Utopia by Roland Elliott Brown
Intolerable intolerance
David Herman reviews The Tyranny of Virtue by Robert Boyers
Mean genius of comedy
Alexander Larman on Happiness and Tears: The Ken Dodd Story by Louis Barfe
Latin hero of love-torn teenagers
Tibor Fischer reviews A Thousand Kisses by Frederic Raphael