D-Day’s Divided Divisions
D-Day: The Battle for Normandy by Antony Beevor
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
The Odd Couple
The Philosophers' Quarrel: Rousseau, Hume, and the Limits of Human Understanding by Robert Zaretsky and John T. Scott
The God that Failed
The Rise and Fall of Communism by Archie Brown
Vocal Heroes
Tenor: History of a Voice by John Potter
Marx’s Capitalist
The Frock-Coated Communist: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels by Tristram Hunt
Freaked Out
The Marvelous Hairy Girls by Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks
Outward Bound
Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín
Fatal Attraction of Tasty Food
Human bodies are simply not built to consume the unhealthy diet we eat nowadays
Common Touch
Michelle Obama’s embrace of the Queen recalls our long-ago monarchs who were more tactile - and much more touchy
Divo Giulio
Giulio Andreotti is the subject of a new film exploring the labyrinthine nature of political power in Italy “Power wearies those who don’t have it,” is a favourite aphorism of the former
Dashed Bad Form
The elegant semi-colon is dying out; it is being replaced by the em-dash—the all-purpose tool of the lazy writer