Book Review

Done well, book reviews have never been more important

Owen Hatherley offers a vital but frequently flawed guide to post-war British architecture

Enough of reformers who want to turn schools upside-down without knowing which way is up

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