BRENT CUTLER searches a new history of contemporary Iran for an understanding of the Islamic Republic, finding both interesting detail and glaring omissions

BRENT CUTLER welcomes a thoughtful analysis of the Erdogan regime, viewed through the evolving history of a neighbourhood in Istanbul

BRENT CUTLER welcomes a timely reminder of the long history of protests and the outdoor spaces in which they takes place

BRENT CUTLER welcomes a book stands as a testimony to those who fought against the evil institution of slavery

BRENT CUTLER admires the plotting but takes issue with the politics of a new Scottish crime thriller

BRENT CUTLER unpicks the complex social relations imagined in a novel about the builders of Stonehenge

BRENT CUTLER welcomes a valuable contribution to discussions around the need to de-carbonise energy production

BRENT CUTLER recommends a sober examination of the real risks and true merits of nuclear energy, and an exposure of the capitalist system as an obstacle to human betterment

BRENT CUTLER is persuaded by a new account of the rise of Christianity, and the fall of the Roman empire

BRENT CUTLER is intrigued by the imperialist, supremacist and contradictory history of a word that is used all too easily

BRENT CUTLER unpicks the cryptic clues of a book within a book within a murder mystery