Michelangelo Antonioni's film 'L'Avventura', a classic study of modernity's moral coldness, found its supreme embodiment not in an abstraction but in an actress: the enigmatic Monica Vitti.

Clement Knox in The Scramble for America shows how a scrappy band of 13 colonies fought and bought its way to superpower size

Being underestimated​ was Indira Gandhi’s chief political asset. The Congress elders who helped her become India’s...

Being underestimated​ was Indira Gandhi’s chief political asset. The Congress elders who helped her become India’s...

Being underestimated​ was Indira Gandhi’s chief political asset. The Congress elders who helped her become India’s...

Being underestimated​ was Indira Gandhi’s chief political asset. The Congress elders who helped her become India’s...

The revolutionary spirit in politics and architecture; histories of free speech and civil war; plus how the Tories fell apart and Starmer won

The Baillie Gifford Prize rewards excellence in non-fiction writing, bringing the best in intelligent reflection on the world to new readers.

In Daring to Be Free, the historian Sudhir Hazareesingh shows how strikes, sabotage and mutiny by slaves brought about abolition

For the hospital, and for the NHS, it was a closed case, another preventable death: medicine is imperfect, such things...

In The Story of CO₂ Is the Story of Everything, Peter Brannen traces the importance of carbon dioxide from prehistoric swamps to the climate crisis

In The Story of CO2 Is the Story of Everything, Peter Brannen traces the importance of carbon dioxide from prehistoric swamps to the climate crisis

In his caustic critique of identity politics, Williams ends up condemning every kind of collective action

In Roman propaganda it was a place of debauchery and child sacrifice, but in her new history Eve MacDonald shows that life in the ancient empire was surprisingly sophisticated

In his caustic critique of identity politics, Williams ends up condemning every kind of collective action

In his caustic critique of identity politics, Williams ends up condemning every kind of collective action

In his caustic critique of identity politics, Williams ends up condemning every kind of collective action

In his caustic critique of identity politics, Williams ends up condemning every kind of collective action

In his caustic critique of identity politics, Williams ends up condemning every kind of collective action

In his caustic critique of identity politics, Williams ends up condemning every kind of collective action

Pratinav Anil: From Paris to Pondicherry - Glorious Failure: The Forgotten History of French Imperialism in India by Robert Ivermee

Calls for the destruction of India’s Mughal heritage have little to do with religion and a great deal to do with politics.

Plague, revolting peasants, uppity nobles and ‘petrified’ genitals … In Sceptred Isle, Helen Carr portrays a country in perma-crisis

Plague, revolting peasants, uppity nobles and ‘petrified’ genitals … In Sceptred Isle, Helen Carr portrays a country in perma-crisis

A fresh take on the history of post-independence India, revealing how Muslim leaders in Congress and the community abandoned those they claimed to represent.

In this sensitive biography, Ron Chernow unpicks the life of Huck Finn’s creator, a great writer undone by quack business schemes and his passion for underage girls

In this sensitive biography, Ron Chernow unpicks the life of Huck Finn’s creator, a great writer undone by quack business schemes and his passion for underage girls

The remarkable story of how British culture was transformed by émigré architects, filmmakers and writers