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The Earth Transformed by Peter Frankopan

“Most people can name the great leaders and major battles of the past,” writes the Oxford historian Peter Frankopan. “But few can name the biggest...

Paul Smith
19 March 202319 March 2023
Books

Hags: The Demonisation of Middle-Aged Women by Victoria Smith

“Ageing is not the same for women as it is for men,” said Ellen Pasternack in The New Statesman. Whereas men might fear frailty and...

Paul Smith
15 March 202315 March 2023
Books

River of the Gods by Candice Millard

“The Romans had an expression to describe an outrageously impossible task,” Facilius sit Nili caput invenire: it would be easier to find the source of...

Paul Smith
20 February 202320 February 2023
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Tough Guy by Richard Bradford

Norman Mailer, the subject of Richard Bradford’s “lively” biography, was “everything we have learnt to despise in the 21st century”, Born to Lithuanian Jewish parents...

Paul Smith
4 February 20234 February 2023
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Spare by Prince Harry

“You might feel as if you’ve already read Prince Harry’s memoir,” But when you read it from cover to cover, Spare proves to be much...

Paul Smith
24 January 202324 January 2023
Books

The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem by Matthew Hollis

“It began, probably, in a cave,” “In the sweltering August of 1919”, a 30-year-old bank clerk named Thomas Stearns Eliot – on a walking holiday...

Paul Smith
17 January 202317 January 2023
Books

Show Me the Bodies by Peter Apps

“Never before, in years of reviewing books about buildings, has one brought me to tears,” “This one did.” Peter Apps, the deputy editor of Inside...

H.Heib
4 December 20224 December 2022
Books

Cannibal Capitalism by Nancy Fraser

In her new book, Cannibal Capitalism, Nancy Fraser offers an expansive history of capitalism, proceeding from mercantilism and 19th-century theories of laissez-faire to 20th-century state-organized...

Paul Smith
1 December 20221 December 2022
Books

Power Failure: The Rise and Fall of an American Icon

The latest history of General Electric runs more than 700 pages, and “there is an air of finality to it,” said Kaushik Viswanath in Fast...

H.Heib
30 November 202230 November 2022
Books

Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami

Fans of Haruki Murakami are “highly unlikely” ever to have the opportunity to “corner him at a book-signing session”, the author of Norwegian Wood and...

Paul Smith
26 November 202226 November 2022
Books

The Philosophy of Modern Song by Bob Dylan

From its title alone, you might assume that Bob Dylan’s new book would be a “treatise on the art and craft of songwriting”, But Dylan...

H.Heib
19 November 202219 November 2022
Books

The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure by Katherine Rundell

“Katherine Rundell is a scholar, a fabulous writer and a born enthusiast,” said Matthew Reisz in The Observer. Earlier this year, she published an acclaimed...

Paul Smith
12 November 202212 November 2022
Books

American Midnight: by Adam Hochschild

The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis It can be too easy to forget the dark periods that our republic has survived...

Paul Smith
3 November 20223 November 2022
Books

Abyss by Max Hastings

The “heart-stopping story” of the Cuban Missile Crisis has been “told many times before”, said Saul David in The Daily Telegraph. But never has it...

Paul Smith
23 October 202227 November 2022
Books

Three Times a Countess by Tina Gaudoin

Raine Spencer is chiefly remembered as “Princess Diana’s ‘wicked stepmother’”, said Marcus Berkmann in the Daily Mail. In the 1980s, she became a “tabloid hate...

Paul Smith
15 October 202227 November 2022
Books

Henry Marsh

Like many doctors, Henry Marsh had come to believe that serious illness was something that “only happened to patients”, As a result, the neurosurgeon spent...

Paul Smith
10 September 202210 September 2022
Books

The Price of Immortality by Peter Ward

The idea that humans can live for ever has long been central to religion, But increasingly, it “has other devotees”. Progress in the nascent science...

Paul Smith
3 September 20223 September 2022
Books

Inventor of the Future: by Alec Nevala-Lee

Buckminster Fuller, the architect, inventor, and futurist, “could come across as almost a secular saint,” In the hours-long talks he gave around the world after...

Paul Smith
26 August 202226 August 2022
Books

Tourists : by Lucy Lethbridge

“Travel for pleasure was once the preserve of young aristocrats taking the Grand Tour,” But in the early 19th century, a crucial change took place:...

Paul Smith
19 August 202227 November 2022
Books

Teller of the Unexpected by Matthew Dennison

Roald Dahl is “very easy to cast as a villain”,He was arrogant and overbearing, a “distant and wayward husband”, and an “unforgivable anti- Semite”. Yet...

Paul Smith
15 August 202215 August 2022
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Heiress, Rebel, Vigilante, Bomber by Sean O’Driscoll

“On the evening of 26 April 1974, four thieves armed with AK-47s broke into Russborough House in County Wicklow, the vast Palladian pile belonging to...

Paul Smith
8 August 20227 December 2022
Books

The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays by CJ Hauser

Avid online readers may already have encountered this book’s titular essay, In 2019, CJ Hauser, a little-known novelist, used a Gulf Coast bird-watching trip and...

Paul Smith
3 August 202225 December 2022
Books

Review of Book: Good Pop, Bad Pop by Jarvis Cocker

This “terrific” memoir should have been titled A History of Jarvis in 100 Objects, Clearing out the attic of his London house, the former lead...

Sarah David
30 July 202230 July 2022
Books

Why We Did It: A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell

by Tim Miller “Too often, when straining to put some daylight between themselves and the Trump administration, regretful Republicans have reached for elaborate excuses and...

Paul Smith
28 July 202228 July 2022
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I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys

Miranda Seymour’s “slyly compelling” biography of the novelist Jean Rhys is “shot through with madness,” “Half its cast are half crazy”— Rhys included—and “most of...

Paul Smith
26 July 202228 July 2022
Books

Zelensky: A Biography by Serhii Rudenko

When, on New Year’s Eve 2018, Volodymyr Zelensky “interrupted his own show” to announce on national television that he was standing as Ukraine’s president, “many...

Paul Smith
16 July 202228 July 2022

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