Books (Featured)
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Post Fact Figments
As if the collective Cypriot mind didn’t have enough trouble distinguishing myth from historical reality, along comes Andreas Hadjikyriacos with…
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The Escape Artist by Jonathan Freedland review – how an Auschwitz breakout alerted the world
It was around September 1942, the month when he turned 18, that Rudolf Vrba came to a momentous decision. Matthew…
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‘Can you come to my party?’: What it’s like to have your novel studied at schools
For Maxine Beneba Clarke, the excitement of being included on school reading lists was quickly matched by the realities of…
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In War, the Economic Weapon Is No Silver Bullet
Nicholas Mulder, The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War (New Haven: Yale University Press). 448 pp.,…
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Harald Jähner: ‘American culture had a very pacifying effect on Germany’
Harald Jähner’s Aftermath, which is published in paperback this April, starts where most popular histories of Europe’s bloody 20th century end,…
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Bias, politics and protests: how human laws constrain and sometimes liberate animals
The book is not jurisdictionally specific, nor is it temporally bound. Siobhan O’Sullivan The Conversation It is startling in its…
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The tug of the tale: Steven Carroll reimagines the life and times of T.S. Eliot and his first wife, Vivienne
Steven Carroll’s new novel, Goodnight, Vivienne, Goodnight, sympathetically reimagines the life of Vivienne Haigh-Wood, Eliot’s first wife, and reflects on…
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Beyond the fog of war: books to help us understand the invasion of Ukraine
With Russian forces pushing deep into Ukraine, bombarding Kharkiv, Kyiv and other cities, and an unprecedented wave of western sanctions pushing…
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The big idea: how can we adapt to life with rising seas?
We have passed the point of no return: rising seas will soon directly affect hundreds of millions of people around…
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The drone law space will ‘undergo significant evolution’
Drone Law and Policy outlines the benefits and risks of the exponential rise in the use of drones, covering the developing…
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On Bloody Sunday by Julieann Campbell review – first-hand stories of a shameful day
“As children,” Julieann Campbell writes in her introduction to this intricately woven oral history of Bloody Sunday and its long…
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The Bright Ages by Matthew Gabriele and David Perry review – the colourful side of the dark ages
The middle ages are a sort of paradox, write the authors of this engaging history. Peter Frankopan The Guardian “When…
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The Treaty by Gretchen Friemann review – the road to division in Ireland
At 3am on 3 December 1921, the mail steamer Cambria, on her maiden voyage between Holyhead and Kingstown, now Dún…
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Book Review: Country is an urgent call to learn from Indigenous knowledges to care for the land
This line sits towards the concluding paragraphs of Country: Future Fire, Future Farming, by Yuin, Bunurong and Tasmanian activist and…
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Her Voice
A ground-breaking collection of personal stories from Greek women and their friends is published and available now. Her Voice, Greek…
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The big idea: are we really so polarised?
But emotion, not policies, may be what actually divides us. Dominic Packer and Jay Van Bavel The Guardian In 2020,…
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