From the May 2025 Issue Walk the Talk Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global By Laura Spinney LR
From the March 2025 Issue Let Them Eat Caviar A History of Crimea: From Antiquity to the Present By Kerstin S Jobst (Translated from German by John Heath) LR
From the November 2024 Issue Legends of the Phantom Rider El Cid: The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Mercenary By Nora Berend
From the March 2024 Issue Europe and All That How the World Made the West: A 4,000-Year History By Josephine Quinn LR
From the November 2023 Issue Lighthouse of the Mediterranean Alexandria: The City that Changed the World By Islam Issa LR
From the June 2023 Issue View from the Camel’s Back Facing the Sea of Sand: The Sahara and the Peoples of Northern Africa By Barry Cunliffe LR
From the August 2022 Issue Apostate in the Archive A History of Water, Being an Account of a Murder, an Epic and Two Visions of Global History By Edward Wilson-Lee LR
From the March 2022 Issue The World Was Not Enough Straits: Beyond the Myth of Magellan By Felipe Fernández-Armesto LR
From the July 2021 Issue Alhambra Confidential City of Illusions: A History of Granada By Helen Rodgers & Stephen Cavendish LR
From the July 2020 Issue From Knossos to Cádiz The Life and Death of Ancient Cities: A Natural History By Greg Woolf LR
From the February 2019 Issue Classical Connections The Map of Knowledge: How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found – A History in Seven Cities By Violet Moller
From the December 2013 Issue Seeder of Lebanon Renaissance Emir: A Druze Warlord at the Court of the Medici By T J Gorton LR
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We are saddened to hear of the death of Edmund White.
We've lifted the paywall on Richard Davenport-Hines's 2014 review of White's Paris memoir.
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