Reviews

The suggestion that Russia has become an Orwellian tyranny is an inadequate explanation as to why the country finds itself in its present situation.

A part-memoir, part-historical exploration of British Second World War masculinity and sexuality.

The correspondents who reported on a period when Russia changed European, and world, history.

An account of the Roman Empire at its height amounts to a marvellous vademecum.

A new account of some of the most exciting, terrible and important years in English history.

An account of the sex lives of European intellectuals is full of gossip – and as shallow as the society pages.

Art reveals the past – if you know how to look.

Great cities more than a mile long, ‘banquette houses’, elephants, and birds with heads ‘as big as a man’s: the journey of David Ingram.

Is it time to say goodbye to Eastern Europe, a world remade so frequently by empires, war and political ideologies that it scarcely stays the same for two generations in a row?

Two significant new publications push the parameters of how we engage with the most revered writer in the English language.