Books

Ian Patterson wishes a study built around writers' day-to-day concerns wasn't quite so workaday

Bernard Wasserstein on Royal David's Divided Dity

Nick Prior finds plenty to think about in a new translation of one of Pierre Bourdieu's last works

Geoffrey Scarre on an insightful, reasoned look at the human capacity to offer and accept apologies

What price victory? Huw Dixon weighs the odds

John Whitelegg on a review of current economic challenges that overpromises and underdelivers

Jules Pretty weighs up the arguments for GMO solutions to Africa's continuing agricultural crisis

Joseph Silk on our chance to boldly go

Howard Davies appraises the sound economic and political sense behind Paul Krugman's latest work

Christopher Eyre on an attempt to enliven a history of the pharaonic era with an ordinary girl's life story

Catherine Belsey writes on the futility of war

Chris McManus considers claims that finger-length ratios point to individual and sex differences

A review of euthanasia and end-of-life issues may help to spur legislative change, says Julie Stone

Paul T. Nicholson on a lucid summary of the Queen of the Nile's historical context and eternal allure

Simon Blackburn revels in a trawl through our rich and varied tradition of ad hominem attacks

A thinker who had no truck with biography is well served by this moving portrait, says Chris Thornhill

June Purvis on the mother of all resources

Steve Fuller on Deirdre McCloskey's ongoing struggle against economists' fetishisation of data