Matthew Reisz

Venice Stoned

Venice: The Biography of a City

By Christopher Hibbert

LR

March 2018 Issue

Anna Minton

Metropolis Now

Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City

By Richard Sennett

LR

March 2018 Issue

Jonathan Keates

Not So Serene

If Venice Dies

By Salvatore Settis (Translated by André Naffis-Sahely)

March 2018 Issue

Richard Cockett

Selfish Capital

A Line in the River: Khartoum, City of Memory

By Jamal Mahjoub

LR

October 2017 Issue

Alan Taylor

Pride of the Clyde

Glasgow: A History of the City

By Michael Fry

LR

October 2017 Issue

Allan Massie

Pillaged People

Rome: A History in Seven Sackings

By Matthew Kneale

LR

October 2017 Issue

Christopher Woodward

Capital Losses

The Last London: True Fictions from an Unreal City

By Iain Sinclair

LR

May 2017 Issue

Jonathan Meades

Monumental Vanity

The Age of Spectacle

By Tom Dyckhoff

September 2016 Issue

Jonathan Meades

Going Underground

The Tunnel Through Time: A New Route for an Old London Journey

By Gillian Tindall

LR

September 2016 Issue

William Whyte

The Battle of Big Ben

Mr Barry’s War: Rebuilding the Houses of Parliament After the Great Fire of 1834

By Caroline Shenton

LR

April 2016 Issue

Anthony Sattin

The End of the Silk Road

Aleppo: The Rise and Fall of Syria's Great Merchant City

By Philip Mansel

LR

March 2016 Issue

Jonathan Keates

Treasure Everywhere

The Global City: On the Streets of Renaissance Lisbon

By Annemarie Jordan Gschwend & K J P Lowe (ed)

LR

March 2016 Issue

Jonathan Meades

Capital Gains?

Slow Burn City: London in the Twenty-First Century

By Rowan Moore

February 2016 Issue

Patrick Scrivenor

Lions & Tigers & Bears

The Georgian Menagerie: Exotic Animals in Eighteenth-Century London

By Christopher Plumb

Menagerie: The History of Exotic Animals in England 1100–1837

By Caroline Grigson

LR

April 1981 Issue

Anita Desai

The Spice of Life

Bengal to Birmingham

By Faizur Rasul

LR

July 2003 Issue

Alan Palmer

A Tale Of One City

Dubrovnik: A History

By Robin Harris

LR

July 2003 Issue

Jonathan Keates

A Portal To Eternity

Paradise of Cities: Venice and Its Nineteenth-Century Visitors

By John Julius Norwich

August 2003 Issue

Allan Massie

Flower Of Scotland

Capital of the Mind: How Edinburgh Changed The World

By James Buchan

LR

September 2003 Issue

Roger Scruton

Tales from the Catacombs

Prague Pictures: Portraits of a City

By John Banville

LR

November 2003 Issue

Tim Heald

The Miscreants’ Metrolpolis

The Birth of Sydney: The Story of Britain's Arrival In The Antipodes

By Tim Flannery (edd, intro)

LR

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