Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death Memory struggles with history in an annal of life in Auschwitz and afterwards, finds Robert Eaglestone 24 January
Soldiers, Spies, and Statesmen: Egypt's Road to Revolt Democracy suffers when the Islamists, the military and the secret police collude, writes Mariz Tadros 17 January
Territory of dreadful delight Joanna Lewis hails a challenging ‘must-read’ for historians of late-Victorian imperialism 17 January
Trent: What Happened at the Council by John W. O’Malley Alec Ryrie salutes a committed and critical look at a key event in the history of Catholicism By Alec Ryrie 17 January
Re-imagining the 'Dark Continent' in Fin de Siecle Literature Joanna Lewis hails a challenging ‘must-read’ for historians of late-Victorian imperialism 17 January
Touching Encounters: Sex, Work, and Male-for-Male Internet Escorting Victor Minichiello hails a study of secret desires that challenges heteronormative notions of masculinity 10 January
Fascist Voices: An Intimate History of Mussolini's Italy Strong ties between ruler and ruled became taboo subjects post-1945, says Ruth Ben-Ghiat 10 January
Thomas Wyatt: The Heart's Forest Cathy Shrank extols an insight into the life of a poet who watched his words in Henry VIII's court 10 January
Romanticism and the Question of the Stranger Shahidha Bari commends an expert guide to figures of foreignness from Coleridge to 9/11 10 January
The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? The ‘most authoritative polymath of our age’ offers a reverse recipe very much to Chris Knight’s taste 3 January
Becoming Right: How Campuses Shape Young Conservatives Alan Ryan on political reaction at two extremes of the American higher education system 3 January
Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False 3 January
Heart Beats: Everyday Life and the Memorized Poem At last, a book exploring the impact of literature on the non-academic reader, writes Chris Jones 20 December
The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die A.W. Purdue on the ramifications of the demise of Western civil society’s foundational structures 20 December
Seduced by Logic: Émilie Du Châtelet, Mary Somerville and the Newtonian Revolution Biancamaria Fontana admires the courage of two women who dared to enter scientific circles 20 December
Was Hitler Ill? A Final Diagnosis No excuses, says Yvonne Sherratt: the Fuhrer’s enormities cannot be blamed on insanity 13 December
Spitting Blood: The History of Tuberculosis, by Helen Bynum Richard J. Evans admires exhaustive coverage of an ancient killer that threatens a major comeback 13 December
Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece The story behind the writing of a literary tour de force is illuminating, finds Tessa Hadley 13 December
The State and the Stork: The Population Debate and Policy Making in US History The US is sleepwalking when it should be defusing the demographic time bomb, finds Robert Mayhew 6 December
Evidence-Based Policy: A Practical Guide to Doing It Better James Wilsdon weighs an unashamedly complex consideration of a Whitehall revolution 6 December
Terrorism: A Philosophical Investigation An analysis of violence using the logic of right and wrong impresses and educates Ted Honderich 6 December
Inside the Centre: The Life of J. Robert Oppenheimer Jon Turney salutes an exhaustive study of the rise and (relative) fall of a brilliant, bewildering mind 6 December
There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra Willy Maley on a writer of commitment’s memoir of a postcolonial nation’s descent into conflict 29 November
Drugs for Life: How Pharmaceutical Companies Define Our Health Sergio Sismondo on a critical exploration of a new, lucrative model for public well-being 29 November
The Carbon Crunch: How We're Getting Climate Change Wrong - and How to Fix It Steve Yearley weighs claims that environmental policies sweep emissions under a Chinese rug 29 November
Gravity's Engines: The Other Side of Black Holes Virginia Trimble considers supermassive creative destruction at the Universe’s galactic centres 22 November
