The Global Race isn’t a Sprint
A perfect book for anyone suffering from a surfeit of Thomas Piketty
Politics, Ideas and the Arts
Molly Bloom’s Day in Court
The epic story of the publication of James Joyce's Ulysses is well-deserving of its own biography
First Novel on a Booker Mission
Zia Haider Rahman is erudite and articulate - but no novelist
Genius from the Bike Factory
Albin Planinc, the tragic Slovenian
Prague’s Red Ghosts
The city's Museum of Communism is shabby and rather strange, but it should be
Two Generations Lost to Communism
50 years of Communism have left Cuba poorer than ever
This Expat Paradise is a Woman’s Nightmare
Dubai may be a popular holiday destination but it is also a human rights quagmire for women
Enjoy the analysis, ignore the advice
Piketty's commitment to rational informed debate is laudable, but his remedies for inequality are not
1948 and All That
Three new books on the Israel-Palestine conflict
1,001 nights on the Tigris
A truly splendid work of erudition, storytelling and humanity
Capital in the 19th Century
Osterhammel's 'The Transformation of the World' shows up the work of all-too-many other historians
The Age of the Warrior Poet
It is a remarkable fact that WW1 produced a distinctive brand of poetry, and poets, and WW2 nothing comparable