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The challenges facing the world are multiplex; the global financial crisis, costly and exhausting conflicts, and cracks appearing…
Book of the Month
Author Video: Bernd Brunner talks about his charming seasonal classic ‘Inventing the Christmas Tree’
Bernd Brunner introduces his book Inventing the Christmas Tree from Berlin.
Book of the Month: The Very Hungry City by Austin Troy
January’s Book of the Month is The Very Hungry City: Urban Energy Efficiency and the Economic Fate of Cities by Austin…
Book of the Month: ‘The Making of the English Gardener’ by Margaret Willes
Our Book of the Month for September goes straight to the root of a true British obsession. The Making…
June Book of the Month: ‘The Forgotten Palestinians’ by Ilan Pappé
Yale’s Book of the Month for June is The Forgotten Palestinians: A History of the Palestinians in Israel,…
May Book of the Month: ‘Why Marx was Right’ by Terry Eagleton
In our Book of the Month for May, one of the foremost Marxist critics of his generation argues…
April Book of the Month: ‘WikiLeaks and the Age of Transparency’ by Micah Sifry
This month we look at the newly-released WikiLeaks and the Age of Transparency, a thoughtful and eye-opening guide…
March Book of the Month: ‘Cartooning: Philosophy and Practice’ by Ivan Brunetti
In Cartooning: Philosophy and Practice, the editor of Yale’s Anthology of Graphic Fiction offers a smart and charming…
February Book of the Month: ‘Ravel: A Life’ by Roger Nichols
This new biography of Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), by one of the leading scholars of nineteenth- and twentieth-century French…
Book of the Month – December
FICTIONAL LONDON: Dickens’s Tales of the City From his earliest published stories to his last uncompleted novel, London…