Books

Catherine Rottenberg enjoys an analysis of a new generation of characters who are transforming the narrative possibilities for women on screen

Michael Marinetto enjoys a bold attempt to challenge one of the great pieties of our time

Neve Gordon has reservations about an ambitious analysis ranging across continents and centuries

Chris Knight wishes that the authors of this hugely ambitious study had gone back further and taken greater account of Africa

Peter Osborne is intrigued by an account of the political and philosophical ideas that shaped the West German left

Linsey McGoey applauds a bold account of the ‘dark money’ fuelling the culture wars on campus

Stefano Bloch applauds a brilliant account of what street art can reveal about people, places and politics

Carrie Tirado Bramen enjoys a wide-ranging analysis of an important concept that has recently been neglected by scholars

Nathan Abrams is impressed by a comprehensive attempt to survey the ways Nazi atrocities have been represented on screen

June Purvis enjoys a group biography that offers new insights into the role of British working-class women in the struggle for the vote 

Robert Eaglestone reflects on the limits of hagiography

Robert A. Segal is unconvinced by an argument about the depth of religious racism