Book

The Revolutionary Temper is a riveting synthesis of Robert Darnton’s life’s work

The Echoes is full of ghosts

Gambling Man documents a career punctuated with attention-grabbing successes and abrupt reversals

Gliff is a different sort of project, but still one which reveals a desire to comment on contemporary culture

Matt Purple’s Decline from the Top: Snapshots from America’s Crisis and Glimmers of Hope is a veritable joy to read

In Ingrained, Callum Robinson’s aim is not simply to convey his love of working in his chosen way, but to evoke his craft warts and all

The book’s primary focus on military detail and power-brokering is both a strength and weakness

Christopher Harding is more tolerant than I am and has a greater affinity with the seekers. But he has written a very interesting book as a result

Following Miss Bell has a homely tone one doesn’t associate with the majestic Gertrude Bell

In his new book, Philip Hoare moves beyond his own hand to make something reckless, marvelous and unforgettable

Aristotle had long proved that the Earth was spherical, and even the illiterate masses of early medieval Europe were aware of the fact

It’s a case study in what not to do