For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by subject:
Sociology & History

Thomas W Laqueur

The Sense of Shame

The Politics of Humiliation: A Modern History

By Ute Frevert (Translated from German by Adam Bresnahan)

April 2020 Issue

Louise Foxcroft

Cruel Intentions

Strange Antics: A History of Seduction

By Clement Knox

September 2016 Issue

Ted Vallance

Thug Nation

A Fiery & Furious People: A History of Violence in England

By James Sharpe

Michael Bywater

Stiff Competition

O: The Intimate History of the Orgasm

By Jonathan Margolis

March 2008 Issue

Paul Addison

Are We Declining?

From Anger to Apathy: The British Experience since 1975

By Mark Garnett

April 2012 Issue

Harry Mount

Keeping Out the Joneses

Cheek by Jowl: A History of Neighbours

By Emily Cockayne

April 2014 Issue

Eric Kaufmann

What’s in a Name?

The Son Also Rises: Surnames and the History of Social Mobility

By Gregory Clark

Paul Addison

People Watching

The Mass Observers: A History, 1937–1949

By James Hinton

June 2013 Issue

Andrew Brown

Ignoble Savages

Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us About Sex, Diet, and How We Live

By Marlene Zuk

The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates

By Frans de Waal

February 2014 Issue

David Nirenberg

Hell is Other Peoples

Racisms: From the Crusades to the Twentieth Century

By Francisco Bethencourt