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An inscription in an old book is the clue to a lost world of literary salons and love affairs

Built on misreadings and deceptive elisions, Nancy MacLean's Democracy In Chains reframes the colourful tale of the American Right as a dank, dark conspiracy

Julia Boyd's meticulously-researched Travellers in the Third Reich shows visitors to Hitler's Germany saw only what they wanted to see

James Hamilton's biography of Thomas Gainsborough offers a portrait not just of the artist but also of the worlds he moved through

Jasper Johns is the J.D. Salinger of contemporary art, whose gnomic work defies easy categorisation

Why is British theatre about Israel so relentlessly one-note?

Christopher Tadgell's seven-volume Architecture In Context is astonishingly ambitious, and effortlessly even-handed

Stephen Glover's Fleet Street novel Splash! is a burlesque treat