Book Review

From the Mongols’ conquest of Persia to their defeat by the Mamluks

The unsound architecture of the Edwardian Baroque

Classics resurrected and new bodies laid to rest

Globalism is nothing new

Bad science is hard to swallow

The ultra-processed food scare is a backwards step for science

David Grann writes the definitive tale of the Wager’s descent into madness

John Gray extends his dark critique of the modern world

Manuscripts have weathered the vicissitudes of time only thanks to human passion

An intellectual Robin Hood reclaims British history for those most underserved by elite narratives