Book Reviews

Sandwich Harper Collins hide caption toggle caption Harper Collins Summer reading. For me, those words suggest an unhurried expanse of time to lose myself in a good story — fiction...

Walter Benjamin Stares at the Sea, C. D. Rose (Melville House 978-1-68589-084-1, $19.99, 224pp, tp) January 2024. I love a lot of books. But I also love a lot of...

Photo by Jeff Overs / BBC via Getty Images I watched the BBC’s election debate on iPlayer, with a plan to fast-forward the really buttock-clenching parts. But, my God, I...

ONE WEEK TO CHANGE THE WORLD: An Oral History of the 1999 WTO Protests, by DW GibsonHOW THE WORLD RAN OUT OF EVERYTHING: Inside the Global Supply Chain, by Peter...

Library of Congress An advertisement for the sale of Indian land by the US Department of the Interior, 1911. The man pictured is Padani-Kokipa-Sni of the Yankton Indian Tribe; photograph...

From the savannas of West Africa to the canals of Italy, families are the glue that tie people’s lives together. Such relationships shape our understanding of the world and form...

CALEDONIAN ROAD, by Andrew O’HaganLondon’s Caledonian Road runs through the borough of Islington, past Pentonville Prison, postwar public housing estates and rows and rows of highly coveted Georgian terraces. Prices...

THE INDISPENSABLE RIGHT: Free Speech in an Age of Rage, by Jonathan TurleyConservative voices are being silenced. We know this because conservative voices are telling us so, insistently, on social...

A key piece of Mithen’s jigsaw is the divergence of hominids and chimpanzees. Fossil evidence of variations in brain size and vocal tract shape between Homo sapiens, Neanderthal man, Homo...