Soldier, Sailor, Beggarman, Thief: Crime and the British Armed Services since 1914 by Clive Emsley A. W. Purdue on the prevalence of crime within the British armed forces 18 April
No Medium by Craig Dworkin David Revill on diverse art forms that focus on, literally, nothing 18 April
Being Protestant in Reformation Britain, by Alec Ryrie Lucy Wooding discusses a fresh examination of fervent belief By Lucy Wooding 18 April
Orgasmology by Annamarie Jagose A study of la petite mort focuses on cultural views not sociological explorations, finds Sally R. Munt 11 April
America’s Assembly Line by David E. Nye Howard Segal pieces together the fascinating history of a key innovation in US manufacturing 11 April
Prospero’s Son: Life, Books, Love, and Theater by Seth Lerer Christopher Innes applauds a memoir of tempestuous father-son relationships framed by elements of literature and performance 11 April
Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time by Ira Katznelson Christopher Phelps on a dazzling new look at the US response to the Depression 11 April
Fractured Times: Culture and Society in the 20th Century by Eric Hobsbawm Roger Morgan on a great historian’s last essays that illuminate an era of social and artistic change 11 April
Making War at Fort Hood: Life and Uncertainty in a Military Community by Kenneth T. MacLeish James T. Crouse on a book that should be on every politician’s reading list 4 April
A Life in Education and Architecture: Mary Beaumont Medd by Catherine Burke Harriet Harriss discusses a paragon of joined-up thinking 4 April
Soldier of Christ: The Life of Pope Pius XII by Robert A. Ventresca John Pollard on a biography of a controversial head of the Catholic Church 4 April
Silence: A Christian History by Diarmaid MacCulloch Ursula King on the use and meaning of the absence of noise in religious beliefs and practices 4 April
The Earthquake Observers: Disaster Science from Lisbon to Richter by Deborah R. Coen Luciana Astiz on how seismology evolved from the combined observations of scientists and citizens 4 April
How to Read a Latin Poem: If You Can’t Read Latin Yet by William Fitzgerald Roger Rees on gaining some understanding of the linguistic and literary richness of Latin poetry without knowing the language 4 April
British Writers and MI5 Surveillance, 1930-1960 by James Smith Matthew Feldman on the connections between literary history and intelligence studies 4 April
The Art of Failure: An Essay on the Pain of Playing Video Games by Jesper Juul Steve Redhead takes a byte from a fascinating but flawed analysis 4 April
Revolutionary Iran: A History of the Islamic Republic by Michael Axworthy Ervand Abrahamian ponders how Muslim clerics seized and retained control of modern-day Persia 4 April
American Lynching by Ashraf H. A. Rushdy Céleste Marie-Bernier admires an original approach to a shameful period in US history 28 March
Image Warfare in the War on Terror by Nathan Roger Neville Bolt on how states and militaries fail to grasp the changing role of media in our lives 28 March
Sex and the Citadel: Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World by Shereen El Feki Shahidha Bari considers an exploration of desire and denial amid Egypt’s shifting sands 28 March
Characters Of Blood: Black Heroism In The Transatlantic Imagination by Céleste-Marie Bernier Catherine Clinton on a creative and contextual analysis of the visual art of enslaved blacks 21 March
Murdoch’s Politics: How One Man’s Thirst for Wealth and Power Shapes Our World by David McKnight Ivor Gaber on what motivates Rupert Murdoch 21 March
To Save Everything, Click Here: Technology, Solutionism, and the Urge to Fix Problems that Don’t Exist by Evgeny Morozov Tara Brabazon on the hypocrisy of digital utopianism 21 March
The God Argument: The Case Against Religion and For Humanism by A. C. Grayling Martin Cohen asks what is the point of using logic to dismantle religious belief? 21 March
The Scientific Sherlock Holmes: Cracking the Case with Science and Forensics by James O’Brien Stephen Wade on the accurate contemporary science behind the Holmesian investigations 21 March
Markets of Sorrow, Labors of Faith: New Orleans in the Wake of Katrina by Vincanne Adams Kevin Fox Gotham on the negative consequences of privatised disaster services and aid work 21 March
The Undivided Past: History Beyond Our Differences by David Cannadine Jill Stephenson on a skilful critique of the scholarly preoccupation with difference 14 March
Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman by Jeremy Adelman Andreas Hess discusses the incredible life of an artist of ‘possibilism’ 14 March
The University and the City by John Goddard and Paul Vallance Geoffrey Alderman on the social and economic benefits that an institution can bring to a locality 14 March
Filmspeak: How to Understand Literary Theory by Watching Movies by Edward Tomarken Philip Kemp wants more substance in the application of literary theory to popular cinema 7 March
Warrior Geeks: How 21st Century Technology Is Changing The Way We Fight and Think About War by Christopher Coker Steve Redhead on how the increasing sophistication of military technology affects modern warfare 7 March
Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century by Paul Kildea Kate Kennedy praises a biography that examines the contradictory aspects of the composer’s character 7 March
30 Great Myths About Shakespeare by Laurie Maguire and Emma Smith Gary Day reviews stories about the great playwright’s life - fact or fiction? 7 March
Stalin’s Curse: Battling for Communism in War and Cold War, by Robert Gellately Vladimir Tismaneanu discusses the revolutionary ambitions of the USSR’s great tyrant 7 March
Diller Scofidio + Renfro: Architecture after Images by Edward Dimendberg This survey of the work of an innovative practice leaves Flora Samuel wishing for about places, plans and politics 28 February
In Search of a Concrete Music by Pierre Schaeffer David Revill on the creator of an unconventional musical genre 28 February
The Pike: Gabriele d’Annunzio: Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War by Lucy Hughes-Hallett Richard Bosworth on a ‘celebrity’ role model for Mussolini’s Fascism 28 February
An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo by Richard Davenport-Hines Stephen Halliday finds no heroes, only villains and victims, in a sordid tale 21 February
Vinyl: A History of the Analogue Record by Richard Osborne The medium and the music it made possible inspire a groovy kind of love in Les Gofton 21 February
Bang! A History of Britain in the 1980s by Graham Stewart Maud Anne Bracke considers an analysis of a revolutionary decade fails to offer a new perspective 21 February
The First Thousand Years: A Global History of Christianity by Robert Louis Wilken Robert A. Segal on a comprehensive study of the growth of the world’s biggest religion 21 February
The Silence of Animals: On Progress and Other Modern Myths by John Gray Shahidha Bari on Straw Dogs’ author’s new tricks 21 February
Hitler’s Philosophers, by Yvonne Sherratt An effort to blame German thinkers for Nazism revives a discredited tradition, says Richard J. Evans 21 February
Antarctica: A Biography by David Day Chris Turney reviews a history of attempts by Antarctic explorers to conquer the southern continent 21 February
Tennyson: To Strive, To Seek, To Find by John Batchelor Gary Day hails a biography of an eminent Victorian 21 February
We Modern People by Anindita Banerjee Yvonne Howell on modernity and early Russian science fiction 14 February
On Glasgow and Edinburgh by Robert Crawford Willy Maley identifies an old-fashioned charm in the telling of a tale of two rival, divided cities 14 February
