For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by
Daisy Dunn

From the December 2025 Issue

O, Lesbia!

Clodia of Rome: Champion of the Republic

By Douglas Boin

From the March 2025 Issue

Antique or Modern?

From the October 2024 Issue

Paper Trails

The Story of Drawing: An Alternative History of Art

By Susan Owens

From the June 2023 Issue

Was He Apollo’s Son?

Plato of Athens: A Life in Philosophy

By Robin Waterfield

From the September 2022 Issue

Statues of Limitations

Exposed: The Greek and Roman Body

By Caroline Vout

From the December 2021 Issue

Out of Attica

The Greeks: A Global History

By Roderick Beaton

From the August 2021 Issue

Sufferings of Helen

The Women of Troy

By Pat Barker

From the July 2021 Issue

Changing of the Guard

Writing in the Dark: Bloomsbury, the Blitz and Horizon Magazine

By Will Loxley

From the June 2020 Issue

The Art of Deduction

Finding Dora Maar: An Artist, an Address Book, a Life

By Brigitte Benkemoun (Translated from French by Jody Gladding)

From the May 2020 Issue

At Home with Oedipus

Thebes: The Forgotten City of Ancient Greece

By Paul Cartledge

From the September 2019 Issue

Better Than Staying at Home

The Pursuit of Art: Travels, Encounters and Revelations

By Martin Gayford

From the May 2019 Issue

Going French

Dining with Somerset Maugham

From the April 2019 Issue

They Thought the British Barbarians

The Story of Greece and Rome

By Tony Spawforth

From the September 2018 Issue

Minotaur She Wrote

Red Thread: On Mazes & Labyrinths

By Charlotte Higgins

From the May 2018 Issue

My Neat Orderly Greek Wedding

Aristotle’s Way: How Ancient Wisdom Can Change Your Life

By Edith Hall

From the June 2017 Issue

Did They Invent Hair Gel?

Caesar’s Footprints: Journeys to Roman Gaul

By Bijan Omrani

From the November 2015 Issue

Power to the People

SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

By Mary Beard

From the August 2014 Issue

Deep Frieze

The Parthenon Enigma: A Journey into Legend

By Joan Breton Connelly