June 26, 2019

In 1987, Benny Morris published a book on the origins of the Palestinian refugee problem that came to be seen as one of the foundations of a new, “revisionist”, school of historians

While studying in the School of Oriental and African Studies library a few years ago, I stumbled across Xu Guoqi’s China and the Great War and was taken aback by the book’s

Dolphin Square is one of the landmarks of London. Famous as a haunt of MPs, living fairly affordably within the limits of the division bells of the House of Commons—they can dash

Bad books are all too easy to spot. My concern is not those, but rather overrated works. Some can be bad, for example Shashi Tharoor’s Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to

In May the news was leaked that writer Tom King would leave DC Comics’ flagship book Batman, cutting short his 100-book run and leaving after issue 85. Fan patience had snapped after

Chris Arnade thinks American society is a bit like a classroom. With a physics PhD, a successful Wall Street career and a family home in Brooklyn, he was one of the ones

Of making many books about Hitler there is no end; and much study of him is a weariness of the flesh. Two more are out this summer, both by historians capable of

Too often political events on either side of the Atlantic are portrayed as being analogous. Too much is made of the superficial similarities between unrelated events. The Leave vote in the 2016

Michael Gove’s Wild Animals in Circuses Bill appears at first glance to be nothing more than his latest essay in exhibitionistic compassion. There are, after all, fewer than 20 performing animals left

A series of health scares recently put me in the way of varied styles of medical communication. After a fainting episode at work necessitated a number of anxiety-inducing tests, I discovered that