April 2022 Issue
Tim Smith-Laing
What Are the Odds?
Luck: A Personal Account of Fortune, Chance and Risk in Thirteen Investigations
By David Flusfeder
Big Snake Little Snake: An Inquiry into Risk
By DBC Pierre
LR
April 2022 Issue
Raymond Tallis
Left-Thinking People
The Matter with Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World
By Iain McGilchrist
March 2022 Issue
Cathy Mason
The Moral Minority
Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life
By Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman
The Women are up to Something: How Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch Revolutionized Ethics
By Benjamin J B Lipscomb
LR
February 2022 Issue
Jane O'Grady
Nothing is Real
Everything, All the Time, Everywhere: How We Became Post-Modern
By Stuart Jeffries
February 2022 Issue
Steven Nadler
Strife on Earth
Dark Matters: Pessimism and the Problem of Suffering
By Mara van der Lugt
LR
December 2021 Issue
Julian Baggini
The Art of Losing
On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times
By Michael Ignatieff
LR
November 2021 Issue
Jonathan Rée
Reason & Its Discontents
Rationality: What It is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters
By Steven Pinker
LR
November 2021 Issue
Donald Rayfield
Prophet of Doom
Disenchanted Wanderer: The Apocalyptic Vision of Konstantin Leontiev
By Glenn Cronin
LR
October 2021 Issue
Steven Nadler
Letting Go of God
Spinoza’s Religion: A New Reading of the Ethics
By Clare Carlisle
June 2021 Issue
Jane O'Grady
Stop Being Reasonable
The Great Guide: What David Hume Can Teach Us about Being Human and Living Well
By Julian Baggini
LR
June 2021 Issue
Marc Mulholland
Peace, Love & Factory Farms
The Utopians: Six Attempts to Build the Perfect Society
By Anna Neima
LR
May 2021 Issue
Kieran Setiya
Generation Next
Infinitely Full of Hope: Fatherhood and the Future in an Age of Crisis and Disaster
By Tom Whyman
LR
March 2021 Issue
Emma Park
We Must Cultivate Our Gardens
The Fourfold Remedy: Epicurus and the Art of Happiness
By John Sellars
The Interior Silence: 10 Lessons from Monastic Life
By Sarah Sands
LR
March 2021 Issue
Julian Baggini
How Deep is Your Love?
Resources of Christianity
By François Jullien (Translated from French by Pedro Rodriguez)
LR
March 2021 Issue
Ritchie Robertson
Quill & Sceptre
Frederick the Great’s Philosophical Writings
By Avi Lifschitz (ed)
LR
February 2021 Issue
Judith Hawley
Mary, Quite Contrary
Wollstonecraft: Philosophy, Passion, and Politics
By Sylvana Tomaselli
February 2021 Issue
Joanna Kavenna
Trust Me, I’m a Philosopher
Scattered Limbs: A Medical Dreambook
By Iain Bamforth
December 2020 Issue
Melanie Marshall
Christ Laid Bare
The Godless Gospel: Was Jesus a Great Moral Teacher?
By Julian Baggini
LR
December 2020 Issue
Andrew Hussey
Deconstructionist Deconstructed
An Event, Perhaps: A Biography of Jacques Derrida
By Peter Salmon
LR
December 2020 Issue
Tom Stern
The Verification Code
The Murder of Professor Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle
By David Edmonds
LR
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