Gal Beckerman’s history of how high-speed communication prevents social change

Chuck Klosterman’s book sheds rose-tinted light on the decade

Escaped from Nazi Germany, a teenage boy found himself a prisoner in Britain

Michael Crick casts Farage as an almost vampiric figure, draining the life from others to sustain his decades of dominance

It’s enough to make you go postal

Embodied divinity

Kevin Lygo’s ‘The Emperors of Byzantium’ revives the dynastic, top-down history deemed passé by academics

A new book on Decimus Burton, Victorian England’s “pagan” architect

A good novel as detective story, and the detective story as a good novel

Ananyo Bhattacharya offers an ambitious biography of a genius who defied categorisation in life and death