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Tibor Fischer’s new novel How To Rule The World is a bleakly brilliant picaresque

Jordan Peterson is erudite and well read but 12 Rules for Life has much of the tenor of a typical self-help book

The similarities between the 1975 and 2016 EU referendums are more striking than the differences

An 'alternative' mortician is on a quest for the West to deal with death

Blake Morrison’s new novel on a literary executor’s tussle over a poet’s posthumous publication John Murray: Byron’s publisher and literary executor burned Byron’s memoirs (METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund,

Classical scholarship for love, not money, leads to some liberating interpretations

With his new translation of the New Testament, David Bentley Hart has brought the Bible back to life

Ofir Haivry's study of John Selden, the 17th-century lawyer and polymath who engaged deeply with Jewish legal traditions, is searching and original

Robert Dallek's biography adds very little that is new to our knowledge of an almost totally inscrutable President

The story of a family over two generations becomes embedded in the history of the 20th century in Mark Mazower's What You Did Not Tell

The little town of Bethlehem has been irrevocably linked with Western visions of the Holy Land, but Nicholas Blincoe shows there is much more to its history

Robert McCrum's Every Third Thought asks: how, when, and where are we going after death?