For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by subject:
Biography & Cultural History

September 2024 Issue

Matthew Parris

How Very Interesting

A Voyage Around the Queen

By Craig Brown

April 2019 Issue

Clare Bucknell

Thinkers & Drinkers

The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age

By Leo Damrosch

November 2002 Issue

William Palmer

Miles from Nowhere

So What: The Life of Miles Davis

By John Szwed

July 2018 Issue

Daniel Matlin

A Dandy in Harlem

The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke

By Jeffrey C Stewart

June 1998 Issue

John Banville

Secrets of the Oxford English Dictionary

The Surgeon of Crowthorne

By Simon Winchester

November 2016 Issue

Nigel Andrew

Box Clever

Television: A Biography

By David Thomson

Play All: A Bingewatcher’s Notebook

By Clive James

October 2016 Issue

Kevin Jackson

Civilising Influence

Kenneth Clark: Life, Art and 'Civilisation'

By James Stourton

November 2004 Issue

Jonathan Mirksy

The Killer With A Gentle Smile

Pol Pot: The History of a Nightmare

By Philip Short

February 2009 Issue

Anthony Daniels

Doctor, Doctor

Taking the Medicine: A Short History of Medicine’s Beautiful Idea and Our Difficulty Swallowing It

By Druin Burch

August 2014 Issue

Alex Danchev

Band of Bohemians

In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and Modernism in Paris 1900–1910

By Sue Roe

October 2008 Issue

Katherine Duncan-Jones

As You Like Him

Soul of the Age: The Life, Mind and World of William Shakespeare

By Jonathan Bate

November 2007 Issue

Peter Jones

Julius Through The Ages

Caesar: A Life in Western Culture

By Maria Wyke

September 2007 Issue

Simon Heffer

The Master & The Fuhrer

The Wagner Clan

By Jonathan Carr

Winnie and Wolf

By A N Wilson

June 2005 Issue

Carole Angier

His English Elements

Pinter in the Theatre

By Ian Smith (ed)