For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by
Jerry Brotton

From the May 2017 Issue

‘The Play’s the Thing’

From the November 2015 Issue

Delft Touches

Eye of the Beholder: Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, and the Reinvention of Seeing

By Laura J Snyder

From the July 2004 Issue

Escapades of an Agitator

Jem Sultan: The Adventures of a Captive Turkish Prince in Renaissance Europe

By John Freely

From the December 2014 Issue

To Mozambique & Beyond

The Visitor: André Palmeiro and the Jesuits in Asia

By Liam Matthew Brockey

From the September 2011 Issue

The Heirs of Lucretius

The Swerve: How the Renaissance Began

By Stephen Greenblatt

From the May 2006 Issue

Speaking with the Dead

The English Civil War: A People’s History

By Diane Purkiss

From the March 2006 Issue

Fundamentalist Friar

Scourge and Fire: Savonarola and Renaissance Italy

By Lauro Martines

From the March 2012 Issue

The Mad Prophet and Mach the Knife

Savonarola: The Rise and Fall of a Renaissance Prophet

By Donald Weinstein

Machiavelli: A Life Beyond Ideology

By Paul Oppenheimer

From the May 2012 Issue

What Killed the Cat?

Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything

By Philip Ball

From the March 2014 Issue

The Painter’s Painter

Piero della Francesca: Artist & Man

By James R Banker

From the May 2013 Issue

Pictures of Thought

The Philosopher, the Priest, and the Painter: A Portrait of Descartes

By Steven Nadler

From the February 2014 Issue

Roads to Xanadu

Mr Selden’s Map of China: The Spice Trade, a Lost Chart and the South China Sea

By Timothy Brook

From the November 2013 Issue

Sale of the Century

The King’s Pictures

By Francis Haskell

From the April 2013 Issue

Cameo Appearances

Medusa’s Gaze: The Extraordinary Journey of the Tazza Farnese

By Marina Belozerskaya