Stranger Magic: Charmed States and The Arabian Nights A celebrated internationalist's capacity for wonder adds lustre to a literary treasure, says Fred Inglis 3 November
The Price of Civilization: Economics and Ethics after the Fall Colin Crouch considers a passionate plea to end the corporate lobbyists' stranglehold on the US economy 3 November
Who Killed Hammarskjöld? The UN, the Cold War and White Supremacy in Africa Joanna Lewis is intrigued by a forensic study of the crash that claimed a champion of decolonisation 3 November
Verdi and/or Wagner: Two Men, Two Worlds, Two Centuries A skewed comparison of opera's heavyweights results in a bloodless spectacle, notes Mark Berry 27 October
Victorian Culture and Classical Antiquity: Art, Opera, Fiction, and the Proclamation of Modernity 27 October
Indra's Net and the Midas Touch: Living Sustainably in a Connected World We're all in this together or we won't be in it at all: Jules Pretty on a call to arms for the planet's future 27 October
Web of Nature: Martin Lister (1639-1712), the First Arachnologist The life of a polymath with 'piercing sagacity' is delightfully rendered, finds Tim Birkhead 27 October
Nine Lives of William Shakespeare After so much ado, why not a metabiography of the Bard that explores all his guises? asks Willy Maley 20 October
Abelard to Apple: The Fate of American Colleges and Universities Rivalry with Ivy Leaguers and for-profits is harming the 'squeezed middle', discovers Charles Middleton 20 October
Metamorphosis: Unmasking the Mystery of How Life Transforms Jon Turney is unconvinced by a theory about how caterpillars grow wings and other transformations 20 October
The Terror of History: On the Uncertainties of Life in Western Civilization A morsel of Montaigne manque in the midst of horror proves not to be to Alex Danchev's taste 13 October
Becoming Dickens: The Invention of a Novelist For the artist formerly known as Boz, success was no foregone conclusion, writes Valerie Sanders 13 October
Rereading Women: Thirty Years of Exploring Our Literary Traditions Mary Evans applauds a collaboration that attuned our ear to female voices in fiction 13 October
Hitler's Hangman: The Life of Heydrich Even in the upper echelons of the Third Reich, one man's cruelty stood out, writes Richard J. Evans 6 October
A History of Violence: From the End of the Middle Ages to the Present Despite laws and mores forbidding aggression, the appetite for bloodshed lingers, finds Joanna Bourke 6 October
