JOHN GREEN appreciates an informative and readable account of the nation state and its current dilemmas, but doubts the solutions this author has to offer

JOHN GREEN is intrigued by an explanation of irrational behaviour from the point of view of brain science

While public outrage has focused on the abuse committed within Jeffrey Epstein’s orbit, key questions remain unresolved, says JOHN GREEN

JOHN GREEN is disappointed by a history of the British working class that retreads familiar paths and offers no new insights

JOHN GREEN welcomes a vital contribution to the debates around genetic manipulation

JOHN GREEN argues that the spreading practice of closing bank account without proof of criminality is an infringement of an elementary human right

JOHN GREEN explores the controversial and popular images of the late Martin Parr, made in the heyday of Thatcherism

JOHN GREEN savours an elegy to black farmers in the deep south of the US: a vanishing way of life redolent with poetic and political meaning

JOHN GREEN’s palate is tickled by useful information leavened by amusing and unusual anecdotes, incidental gossip and scare stories

JOHN GREEN is intrigued by the ethereal, ghostly quality of images of a London unobscured by the bustle of humanity

JOHN GREEN asks how can we take decisive action on population levels with a world leader who is a destructive ignoramus

MARIA DUARTE, FIONA O CONNOR and JOHN GREEN review The Choral, Belen, Dragonfly, and Colossal Wreck