Spare the Thumbscrews
The Italian Inquisition by Christopher F. Black
Guide to the Perplexed
Nazi Literature in the Americas by Roberto Bolaño, translated by Chris Andrews
Seductive Pursuits
Bite the Hand that Feeds You: Essays and Provocations by Henry Fairlie and Best Seat in the House by Frank Johnson
High Priest of Poetry
Taller When Prone by Les Murray
Men From the Ministry
Choose Your Weapons: The British Foreign Secretary — Two Centuries of Conflict and Personalities by Douglas Hurd
It Could Be Worse
Trials of the Diaspora: A History of Anti-Semitism in England by Anthony Julius
Booby Prize
White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
ONLINE ONLY: Beirut: Blood Holiday
Lebanon's celebration of a brutal killer's release illustrates the extent - and the limitations - of Hizbullah's power
Blaming the Parents
The Believers by Zoë Heller
Birds of a Feather
Plumes: Ostrich Feathers, Jews, and a Lost World of Global Commerce by Sarah A. Stein The ostrich is an exceedingly ugly bird with beautiful feathers – so beautiful that for four decades