November 2021 Issue
Jason Goodwin
From the Harem to the Bath House
The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs
By Marc David Baer
September 2020 Issue
Caroline Finkel
Master of the Universe?
God’s Shadow: The Ottoman Sultan Who Shaped the Modern World
By Alan Mikhail
July 2019 Issue
Eric Ormsby
Straw Men in Mufti
Useful Enemies: Islam and the Ottoman Empire in Western Political Thought, 1450–1750
By Noel Malcolm
LR
October 2017 Issue
Caroline Finkel
Pedalling Influence
The Sultan’s Organ: The Epic Voyage of Thomas Dallam and his Extraordinary Musical Instrument in 1599 and his Time in the Palace and Harem of the Ottoman Sultan
By Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy
LR
March 2017 Issue
Roger Crowley
Micklegarth by Sea
Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities
By Bettany Hughes
LR
May 2016 Issue
Norman Stone
Spoils of Victory
Lawrence of Arabia’s War: The Arabs, the British and the Remaking of the Middle East in WWI
By Neil Faulkner
LR
February 2016 Issue
Charles King
Carving Up the East
The Ottoman Endgame: War, Revolution and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 1908–1923
By Sean McMeekin
LR
March 2015 Issue
Norman Stone
What a Carve Up
The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East, 1914–1920
By Eugene Rogan
LR
August 2010 Issue
Adam LeBor
The Other Naqba
In Ishmael’s House: A History of Jews in Muslim Lands
By Martin Gilbert
LR
April 2009 Issue
Adam LeBor
Ottoman Atrocity
Rebel Land: Among Turkey’s Forgotten Peoples
By Christopher de Bellaigue
LR
August 2008 Issue
Roger Crowley
Taking on the Turk
The Enemy at the Gate: Habsburgs, Ottomans and the Battle for Europe
By Andrew Wheatcroft
LR
October 2007 Issue
Adam LeBor
The Ottoman Question
A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility
By Taner Akçam (Translated by Paul Bessemer)
LR
September 2005 Issue
David Cesarani
The Geopolitics of Memory
The Great Game of Genocide: Imperialism, Nationalism, and the Destruction of the Ottoman Armenians
By Donald Bloxham
LR
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