Humanities

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

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

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

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

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

Sandra Leaton Gray on healthier options for e-junkies

Tom Steele welcomes a painstakingly researched account of the renowned cultural critic’s legacy

Pat Thane on a book that provides important insights into the experience of female immigrants

Are we losing sight of the purpose of reading? Rachel Bowlby isn’t sure she needs instruction

Gary Day enjoys the facts but would have appreciated some more analysis in a comprehensive review of all aspects of television

Robin Feuer Miller on an analysis of writers’ perceptions of death

Marianne Elliott on the bloody foundation of a modern state

Clare Brant on the truly dedicated followers of 18th-century fashion

Sophie Fuggle on the constantly changing debate between high and low culture

Barbara Graziosi evaluates a crash course in classical myth

Arne Hintz welcomes a timely contribution to the post-Leveson debate

Hayley Jayne Bradley on how she has been depicted over the centuries

Mark Berry on what lies behind the modern reverence for Mozart’s music

Ivor Gaber on how broadcasters report stories in which the status quo is under threat

Robert Eaglestone lauds what will become a standard work in literary criticism

Maureen McNeil praises a short overview of the challenges of recent body politics

Roza Tsagarousianou on an attempt to make sense of how the country has been subjected to international scrutiny

Martin Cohen on logic and its place at philosophy’s core

Jill Stephenson praises a study of terror from the skies

Margaret Weitekamp on a woman who helped get the US space programme off the ground

A startling exercise in revisionism leads A. W. Purdue to ponder which nation was responsible for launching the great conflict

Rachel L. Einwohner on those who stood against the Holocaust

Religious belief is alive and well on campus, observes Gerald Pillay

David Gewanter on the Modernist urge to edit

Christianity undermined Roman sexuality by giving it a spiritual dimension, finds Candida Moss

Daria Kuss is impressed with a series of interviews that shed light on the medicalisation of gaming problems

June Purvis is intrigued by an account of those who swam against the tide in an age of conformity and religious piety

Tara Brabazon on building difference online

Korea was divided by a struggle for legitimacy that resonates still, writes Marilyn Young

Lucy Wooding reviews an analysis of the culture of early modern England

Ilaria Favretto on how the ‘years of lead’ were brought to a close

Jane Thomas takes the Wessex trail

Hugh Adlington gains a greater appreciation of one of England’s greatest devotional poets

Mary Bryden on a deliciously rich interrogation of the French novelist’s oeuvre

Erik-Jan Bos finds that the mystery surrounding a famous painting opens a new window on the French philosopher’s world and life

Annmarie Adams on one man’s quest to find places where form meets libido

A Harvard scholar on what makes Jewish wisecracks distinctly Jewish

Shahidha Bari welcomes a thoughtful look at ordinary anatomy and extraordinary anxiety

Hilary Hinds praises an account of the social shifts discerned in small ads, smooching and soulmates

Roger Morgan on a vivid social history of Britons seeking to modernise

Robert Zaretsky on a study that shows how history defeats not just prediction, but also our predilection for theory

A. W. Purdue on the evolution of the Tube system

Annmarie Adams on the architecture of buildings with ‘controversial’ uses

Laurence Coupe celebrates efforts to rethink urban spaces to give them an ecological dimension

Pat Hudson on a treasure trove of accounts of working-class individuals enjoying new opportunities and choices amid change

Erik Jan Zürcher salutes a study showing how the military shaped the founder of the Republic of Turkey

Felicity James toasts an ideal introduction to critical analysis

Euan Clarkson discusses a scientific discipline’s literary foundations

Constantine Sandis on Darwin’s dangerous ideas man

Angela Vanhaelen on the fascination and fear aroused by 18th-century mechanical figures

John Gilbey on a stimulating discussion of the definition of a widely used term