East India Company: the original corporate raiders
How the British trading behemoth took control of 200 million people and one of the richest empires on Earth.
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The Dutch House by Ann Patchett is a gripping examination of what makes a home
A novel that makes the reader reflect upon how much anyone ever knows about a family, about the truth of…
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Girl: Edna O’Brien’s moving fictionalisation of the Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram
In Maryam, O’Brien has created a character both archetypal and individual: narrator of her own story and repository of others’.
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David Goldblatt’s The Age of Football shows the game’s global power
There are two great lies told about football: that it is only a game, and that it shouldn’t mix with…
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Footsoldiers is a search for answers to the question: who joins a political party?
It is hard to escape the conclusion that British politics is a middle-class voluntocracy: a politics run by “a bunch of…
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Will and Testament by Vigdis Hjorth, a controversial but immaculately restrained Norwegian novel
Hjorth’s precision becomes a quietly devastating mimicry of the effects of trauma, and of ambiguous and conflicting memories.
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Here’s looking at you – how China built its Great Firewall
During Mao Zedong’s rule, you could be detained for discussing your cat (as the academic Perry Link once noted, the…
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Hussein Kesvani’s Follow Me, Akhi: investigating Islam and the internet
The culture of the internet and the world of devout religious faith are two areas that, for outsiders, can be…
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