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Was Hans Asperger a benevolent and humane doctor? Or was he deeply implicated in Nazi psychiatry and its darkest episode, euthanasia?

The five Ancient Greek romances that have made it down to us in their entirety are an enigma

Bitcoin is a fascinating hybrid: part cult, part asset, part business enterprise, part currency, part fad—and it appeals to the best and worst of human nature

Does contemporary Western civilisation face any threat more pressing than that which emanates from within our own societies?

Western scholarship on Islam has long been under a cloud

For many, Swanton and Arlott embodied the soul of cricket themselves

Far more than just a jolly trip down memory lane, with a backdrop of dreaming spires, this is a moving and mature work

The Darker the Night, The Brighter the Stars is a wonderful, strange, genre-defying book

Ibn Khaldun has been repackaged to serve contemporary concerns many times, but Robert Irwin's biography cuts through the myth-making

Lyn Julius's Uprooted is an authoritative history of the decline and virtual end of Jewish life in the Arab world

The helter-skelter expansion of higher education may be good for individuals but has sharpened value divides in society

Andrew Gimson's portraits of our 54 prime ministers are lucid, pithy and perceptive