Through history, Mermaids have been treated as more real than legendary, even by those who have had a reputation to uphold

What we have is pure storytelling delight, a page-turner that works forwards and backwards as the reader fills in the gaps

Jeremy Black makes his way through the British Library’s Crime Classics collection

A British-American professor explains how diversity ruined academia, and how to reform it

The Upswing by Robert Putnam, with Shaylyn Romney Garrett

Jeremy Black weighs in on two recent historiographical offerings

Professor Jeremy Black on British Library Crime Classics and his favourite ‘whodunits’

Former bookseller A.S.H. Smyth enjoys a bestselling bookshop owner’s taxonomy of bookshop people

The spouse of a longstanding MP has an opportunity to offer a particular perspective

John Bolton’s account of his time in the Trump administration gives a damning report of the president’s ignorance