Books

Chris Knight on an analysis of crisis as a narrative device

Peter J. Smith on non-Lit Crit efforts to find the method in the Danish prince’s madness

Biancamaria Fontana on a mannered criticism of Enlightenment thought

Barbara Graziosi on female adherents to an ancient philosophy

Les Gofton on ‘world families’ and globalisation

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Alison Stokes on natural catastrophes and the need to use collective wisdom to cope with them

Sarah Sarzynski on an analysis of student activism during Brazil’s military dictatorship

Tim Hall takes a ride with the urban explorers obsessed with penetrating the half-built, derelict or hidden parts of our cities

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June Purvis discusses conservative contributions to gender equality

Julia Droeber is humbled by the courage of everyday resistance

Robert Mayhew on the human need to travel to extreme environments that nourish the spirit

Matthew Feldman on a study of the Nobel prize-winning existentialist author through the themes that preoccupied him

Shahidha Bari on a literary biography of the siblings’ creative collaboration

Flora Samuel is impressed by a message of regeneration

Stina Lyon ponders life’s many shades of grey

Marian Duggan takes a tour of the US LGBT liberation movement

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Conor Gearty on an impassioned attack on ‘imperialism disguised as moralism’

Laurence Coupe on a grand indictment of the ‘Western epistemological error’

Martin Cohen on a history of moral philosophy interwoven with proponents’ biographical details

James Stevens Curl on the importance of hand-drawing skills and appropriate use of classical language in designing modern buildings

Sally Feldman on an alternative interpretation of the media reporting and government responses to the Ethiopian famine in 1984

Dick Hobbs finds low-life tales of illegal entrepreneurs in abundance, but not so scholarly rigour

Lara Cook on how different leaders have made and remade the Kremlin

Barbara Eichner on a different kind of biography

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Philip Hoare floats away on a poetic enquiry into the extraordinary nature of what surrounds us

The convictions of those involved in efforts to ‘rescue’ women from religion will be unsettled by this work, says Madawi Al-Rasheed

Noel-Ann Bradshaw on a work that unlocks maths’ power and beauty by weaving it into an inspirational autobiography

Alex Danchev on how Britain has remembered and misremembered the First World War

Jerome de Groot on time, recollection and the Bard

Caroline Osella on a page-turning survey of people and politics in a region once at the heart of global trade and imperial histories

Geraldine Van Bueren lauds a plea to put our passions to work in building a more just society

Roger Morgan on a peer’s review of Brussels’ weaknesses

Kitty Stewart finds wisdom in a study of progress and disparity between nations and people

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Andrew Briggs on an effort to cast down faith-based reasoning

K.E. Gover on a delightful guide to seeing art with new eyes

Danielle Sands on a call for broader, more creative and politically engaged modes of thought

Sherry Lee Linkon on a ‘community of memory’ fighting for a place called home

Peter Messent on why upper-class men felt at home on the frontier

Pernille Arenfeldt on a fine counterargument to reductionist claims about women and Islam

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An evaluation of US tertiary education prompts Mary Stuart to reflect on how the UK is changing

Flora Samuel on a sociologist’s observations of everyday life in the Big Apple

Jules Pretty on a combined autobiography of a field biologist and celebration of nature

Philip Kemp on the cooperation and acquiescence demonstrated by LA film studios to the Nazis

Ursula King on how the new Christian message was communicated by listening to the spoken word through teaching and preaching

Jennifer Altehenger on a compelling account of the Communist involvement in the Civil War and of the first eight years of Communist rule

Roger Morgan on the reasons why so much blood was shed

Sandra Leaton Gray on healthier options for e-junkies

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Gwendolyn Beetham on what we can learn from observations of society’s dismissal of women

John Gilbey is reunited with fondly remembered computer hardware that never achieved market success

A. W. Purdue is moved by the stories of the medical personnel who saved lives at the Western Front

Helen Fulton looks at social attitudes to women’s monthly cycle in the 16th to 18th centuries

Philip Murphy on an analysis of addictions, to both legal and illegal substances, with respect to the role of power

Joanna Bourke on a meticulous analysis of the responses of civil rights movements to sexual violence against women and girls