Book Review

The new edition of Tom Harper’s ‘Atlas: A World of Maps’ is an instructive as well as attractive volume

The author is evenhanded and accurate about the nouvelle cuisine movement, says Paul Levy

Friends and Enemies by Barbara Amiel is an extraordinary work of self-revelation

Macdonald’s prose is full of resonance and beauty, apposite delicacy and memorable evocations, says Matthew Adams

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