An anarchist dog-walker on working for the one per centBook review: The Dog Walker, by Joshua Stephens
An old-fashioned epic on the rise and fall of empiresBook review: The Gold Eaters, by Ronald Wright and Hamish Hamilton
How we taught America to love the gunBook review: Arms: the culture and credo of the gun, by A. J. Somerset
How Emperor Ashoka left his life as a conquererBook review: Ashoka in Ancient India, by Nayanjot Lahiri