This week sees the return of our Short Histories series, with introductions to Ancient Greece and the New Testament. Continue reading
Category Archives: News
New series: Behind the Silver Screen
Chronicling the full collaborative history of filmmaking for the first time. Continue reading
Inside the New Jihad, book announcement
With unrivalled access, Sami Moubayed’s Inside the New Jihad provides a unique and more complete picture of the ISIS movement. Continue reading
The Kurds of Iraq, out 30 October
Who are Iraq’s Kurds? Mahir Aziz’s The Kurds of Iraq goes deep inside Iraqi Kurdistan to meet the people now on the front line in the war against the Islamic State. Continue reading
Le Jour se lève, 75th Anniversary
On 3 October, the 75th anniversary reissue of Marcel Carné’s classic Le Jour se lève hits cinemas in the UK and Ireland. Continue reading
The Secret World in the Sunday Times
‘Waspish, quick-witted, and eloquent’, our new Hugh Trevor-Roper book receives advanced praise. Continue reading
Wall Street Journal review The New Emperors
After broadsheet attention in the UK, now it’s time for the US to take notice of Kerry Brown’s study of power in China. Continue reading
Wall Street Journal review In the Name of the People
How a 1977 massacre still shapes Angola today. Continue reading
openDemocracy review The Fog of Peace
Paul Rogers, openDemocracy’s international-security editor, has called The Fog of Peace a ‘remarkable book by two specialists in the field.’ Continue reading
House of the Wolf reviewed in Times Literary Supplement
Ezzat El Kamwari’s ‘absorbing and kaleidoscopic retelling of Egyptian history.’ Continue reading
The Yezidis publication date brought forward
With thousands of Yezidi refugees currently besieged by forces from the Islamic State (Isis) in Iraq, we have decided to bring forward the publication of Birgül Açikyildiz’s The Yezidis. Continue reading
David Patrikarakos reports for the New Statesman
David Patrikarakos has written for the New Statesman on how the MH17 disaster turned a conflict global. Continue reading
Why Xi Jinping’s investigation of Zhou Yongkang is a big deal
Kerry Brown has provided opinion on Xi Jinpings’s move to investigate Zhou Yongkang for corruption in the Guardian, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal. Continue reading