February 2024 Issue Craig Clunas The Light of Asia: A History of Western Fascination with the East The Light of Asia: A History of Western Fascination with the East By Christopher Harding LR
August 2021 Issue Jane Ridley England’s Empire Style Interiors Hidden Heritage: Rediscovering Britain’s Lost Love of the Orient By Fatima Manji LR
July 2018 Issue Robert Irwin There Be Despots Unfabling the East: The Enlightenment’s Encounter with Asia By Jürgen Osterhammel (Translated by Robert Savage) LR
June 1996 Issue Damian Thompson There is Not Very Much to Choose Between Them Feet of Clay: A Study of Gurus By Anthony Storr LR
September 2016 Issue Kevin Jackson Use Your Illusions Conjuring Asia: Magic, Orientalism, and the Making of the Modern World By Chris Goto-Jones LR
April 2016 Issue Robert Irwin Eastern Promises This Orient Isle: Elizabethan England and the Islamic World By Jerry Brotton LR
April 2015 Issue Dominic Green Postcards from the Harem Benjamin-Constant: Marvels and Mirages of Orientalism By Nathalie Bondil (ed) LR
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