From the December 2006 Issue An Ambivalent Authority Alexis de Tocqueville: Prophet of Democracy in the Age of Revolution By Hugh Brogan LR
From the February 2020 Issue How the West was Lost The Light that Failed: A Reckoning By Ivan Krastev & Stephen Holmes LR
From the May 2019 Issue Learning to Deal Upheaval: How Nations Cope with Crisis and Change By Jared Diamond LR
From the December 2018 Issue Get Real The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities By John J Mearsheimer LR
From the March 2018 Issue Mind the Gap The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures By Antonio Damasio
From the November 2017 Issue Homo Duplex The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World By Maya Jasanoff
From the August 2017 Issue Hobby Horses A Guide to the Classics or How to Pick the Derby Winner By Guy Griffith & Michael Oakeshott LR
From the December 2016 Issue From Rationalism to Ressentiment Age of Anger: A History of the Present By Pankaj Mishra
From the August 2016 Issue The Dialectical Man Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion By Gareth Stedman Jones
From the May 2016 Issue Romantic Rebel? The Discovery of Chance: The Life and Thought of Alexander Herzen By Aileen M Kelly LR
From the March 2016 Issue Being Human At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being and Apricot Cocktails By Sarah Bakewell
From the December 2015 Issue Identity Checks Soul Machine: The Invention of the Modern Mind By George Makari LR
From the November 2015 Issue Transmuting the Point A Foot in the River: Why Our Lives Change – and the Limits of Evolution By Felipe Fernández-Armesto LR
From the September 2015 Issue Notes on Liberty Isaiah Berlin: Affirming – Letters 1975–1997 By Henry Hardy & Mark Pottle (edd)
From the July 2015 Issue Politics of Pleasure The Happiness Industry: How the Government and Big Business Sold Us Well-Being By William Davies
From the June 2015 Issue Conspicuous Consumption The Conqueror Worm: Llewelyn Powys – A Consumptive’s Diary, 1910 By Peter J Foss (ed)
From the December 2014 Issue Life in the Fast Lane Speed Limits: Where Time Went and Why We Have So Little Left By Mark C Taylor LR
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