Why humans find it hard to do away with religion
The new atheists decry religion as a poisonous set of lies. But what if a belief in the supernatural is…
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From Bunyan to the phone hacking scandal: the history of Vanity Fair
At Vanity Fair: From Bunyan to Thackeray by Kirsty Milne takes us from The Pilgrim’s Progress to Condé Nast’s glamorous title.
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A French memoir of the Holocaust shows the courage of choosing to survive
Marceline Loridan-Ivens’s But You Did Not Come Back is a addressed to her father and tells the story of her time in the…
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The danger of nostalgia: looking back at 1956
Violence and prejudice is rife in two studies of the pivotal year of 1956.
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In love and war: the life and work of the Welsh writer, pacifist and soldier Alun Lewis
Morlais by Alun Lewis and Alun, Gweno and Freda by John Pikoulis reviewed.
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Stiff upper lips: an English history of emotion
Two new books chart our changing feelings around feelings.
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What happens if you find the people who owned your second-hand books?
Second-Hand Stories by Josh Spero follows the author as he tracks down the previous owners of his books.
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The triumphs and errors of Éamon de Valera
Ronan Fanning’s Éamon de Valera: a Will to Power reveals a titan of Irish politics.
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