by Nil Twenty-five years after the planes struck New York and Washington, the most unsettling argument in 25 Years After 9/11: The Future of the Global Jihadi Movement is not that al-Qaeda
by Eric To read How to Be Grateful: An Aztec Guide to the Art of Gratitude is to encounter gratitude not as a soft moral sentiment but as a cultural force powerful
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Elizabeth A. Quillen’s Medieval Nuns at War distinguishes itself through a deliberate attempt to redress what the author calls the “frequent erasure” of women whose lives surface only in “a singular mention,
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by Luxman Tracy Borman’s The Stolen Crown is less a straightforward history than a psychological excavation of ambition, insecurity, and legitimacy in Tudor England. Borman, long celebrated for her archival precision and
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by Durga Charles Ferguson’s Presidential Seclusion presents itself as a history of Camp David, but in truth it is a far more unsettling mirror held up to American power itself—its contradictions, its
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by Eric Lauren Johnson’s Margaret Beaufort is both a resurrection and a reckoning. It is a book that dares to reclaim one of English history’s most polarising matriarchs—“the mother of the king’s
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by Eric Piers Morgan’s Woke Is Dead reads like an obituary written by the accused at the funeral. It is brash, polemical, and intentionally blasphemous against the new secular religion of progressive
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by Durga Dr Gwen Adshead’s Four Questions About Violence is one of those deceptively calm titles that conceals a detonator. It’s a book written by a forensic psychiatrist who has spent decades
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by Eric Göran Rosenberg’s Israel: A Personal History is a reckoning disguised as reminiscence, a confession of belief betrayed by history and ideology. In revisiting his formative years in the fledgling State
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by Durga Dennis R. Dalton’s Unit 33 reads like a moral experiment conducted under the cover of a thriller. The book’s sleek façade—its crime scenes, its corporate espionage, its terse dialogue—conceals a
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The revelations come from Tina Gaudoin’s book, The Incidental Feminist, which was discussed at the Cheltenham Literature Festival this week. Gaudoin claims that Thatcher engaged in an affair early in her career
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