The monsters of old can teach us about the monsters of today

This must be in competition for the most inaccurate work of non-fiction since … well, since Johnson’s last book

The victims of abuse could also be degraded by historians

Squeezed into a single large volume, readers can now find a remarkable account of the Greek city

A new book explores the importance, as well as the dangers, of risk

Another mélange of murders, from Japan to Scotland

Technology is making the beautiful game less beautiful

No historian wields Ockham’s razor more effectively than J.C.D. Clark

Taylor’s hunger for money, flashy gizmos and flashier gewgaws found its echo in Burton’s need to forsake the classics

How conflict over land ownership shaped conflict over Ireland