Germaine de Staël: A Political Portrait, by Biancamaria Fontana
Carla Hesse on a lively study examining the French thinker’s first intellectual passion
Carla Hesse on a lively study examining the French thinker’s first intellectual passion
Which books have brought insight or consolation to academics and other university staff in this turbulent year? Our expert readers share their discoveries
Matthew Reisz reflects on a sobering year in academic books that was thankfully enlivened by stories of Barbie dolls, chimpanzees and sex under socialism
An account of the vanquishing of superstition and magic makes some imprudent leaps, says Biancamaria Fontana
Book of the week: Biancamaria Fontana on a masterly defence of the values of modernity against ‘progressophobes’