My most recent:

• Edwin Black’s ‘Financing the flames’

• Max Blumenthal ‘Goliah’ and Najla Said’s memoir; dual review

• Max Hastings on The Great War

• Phyllis Chesler‘s lovely book on Afghanistan

• Ari Shavit’s disastrous ‘My Promised Land’

• A look at Sir Salman’s memoir

Socrates drinks the hemlock, after receiving a bad review (Photo: Seth J. Frantzman)