Book reviews

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

Emma Rees is impressed by a disturbing study of how universities largely fail to address their employees’ grievances

Peter J. Smith gets drowned in the detail of an ambitious study of the playwright’s milieu

Geoffrey Cantor has mixed feelings about a bold attempt to put a 14th-century friar at the heart of our understanding of science

Lucy Bolton is intrigued by an analysis of changing racial attitudes based on the career of a great Hollywood icon

Ruby Guyatt enjoys a wide-ranging account of how developments in religion have often been shaped by changes in the climate

Martin Cohen takes issue with a polemic that seems to skate over some of the deeper dimensions of logic and scientific method

John Gilbey is intrigued and disturbed by an occasionally irreverent account of how environmental disaster haunts popular culture 

Susan McHugh enjoys a detailed analysis of how our relations with dogs reveal some essential truths about what it means to be human

John Barry enjoys a bold attempt to rethink our political priorities in the light of the ecological crisis

Peter J. Smith enjoys a powerful analysis of how the work of the Bard cuts through simplistic notions of national identity

Ann Hughes enjoys a richly detailed account of how Henry VIII imposed his power over the church

Richard J. Williams applauds an unusually optimistic case for environmentalism

Johann N. Neem enjoys a sharp historical analysis of why the humanities always seem to be overpromising on what they can do

Georgina Murray applauds a bold attempt to put gender at the heart of a wider political critique

R. C. Richardson enjoys a vivid account of how the French Revolution helped shape new ways of understanding the past

Angelia R. Wilson applauds an analysis seeking to bring far more diverse voices into the study of politics

Deborah D. Rogers is unconvinced by an ambitious attempt to apply the insights of neuroscience to centuries of literature

Geoffrey Alderman admires a definitive account of a wartime massacre that remains controversial today

Lincoln Allison is not wholly convinced by an analysis of the forces that shape history

Charlotte Jones enjoys a historical account of radical politics that may have important lessons for today

Stephen Mumford enjoys a brilliant analysis of what has gone wrong with the world’s most popular sport, which is less convincing on solutions

David Owen on a compelling case for interdisciplinary analysis of refugee economies

Lisa Hopkins enjoys a vivid picture of the part of London where Shakespeare once resided

Jan Machielsen considers the ‘cancel culture’ of the Counter-Reformation and its echoes today

Rebecca Buxton is thrilled by a rich and accessible collection that challenges the age-old assumption of male-dominated philosophy

Peter J. Smith admires a bold attempt to show how details of poetic form reflected deep political and religious divisions in early modern England

Robert Eaglestone finds much to admire in an unapologetic attempt to justify the humanities in their own terms

Jane O’Grady is frustrated by a minutely calibrated study of centuries of reflections on eroticism

Laura Harvey applauds an attempt to bring more humanistic modes of thinking into the ‘dismal science’

David A. Sanders enjoys a vivid account of the many crafty ways academics steal the words of others