Book Review

The products of deeply felt faith and painfully acquired skills

Killings amid the crunch of leaves

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

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

Almost everybody found it easier to disengage from what was happening

Spend time inside the mind of your most eccentric, sometimes maddening friend