From the June 2024 Issue Planet of the Killer Apes The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins By Stefanos Geroulanos LR
From the October 2023 Issue Adam Smith the Socialist Visions of Inequality: From the French Revolution to the End of the Cold War By Branko Milanovic LR
From the April 2022 Issue Tomorrow Belongs to Us A Brief History of Equality By Thomas Piketty (Translated from French by Steven Rendall) LR
From the September 2021 Issue My Yam is Bigger Than Yours The Status Game: On Social Position and How We Use It By Will Storr LR
From the June 2021 Issue Earning Our Stripes The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World By Adrian Wooldridge
From the October 2020 Issue With a Nudge & a Wink The Craft: How the Freemasons Made the Modern World By John Dickie
From the December 2018 Issue The Joys of Enlightenment Power, Pleasure, and Profit: Insatiable Appetites from Machiavelli to Madison By David Wootton LR
From the June 2018 Issue Thetford’s Finest Thomas Paine: Britain, America, & France in the Age of Enlightenment and Revolution By J C D Clark LR
From the August 2017 Issue Stargazing The Invention of Celebrity, 1750–1850 By Antoine Lilti (Translated by Lynn Jeffress)
From the December 2015 Issue Esprit de Corpse The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains By Thomas W Laqueur LR
From the October 2014 Issue Faith of the Founders Nature’s God: The Heretical Origins of the American Republic By Matthew Stewart LR
From the April 2014 Issue Fighting Philosophers Revolutionary Ideas: An Intellectual History of the French Revolution from The Rights of Man to Robespierre By Jonathan Israel LR
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