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This Emperor Had Clothes

REVIEW: ‘Meditations’ by Marcus Aurelius, translated by Aaron Poochigian

Don't Fork It Over Yet

REVIEW: 'The Heart-Shaped Tin: Love, Loss, and Kitchen Objects' by Bee Wilson

Always in Front of the Servants

REVIEW: ‘The Royal Insider: My Life with the Queen, the King and Princess Diana’ by Paul Burrell

Crime and the Criminologists

REVIEW: ‘Marked by Time: How Social Change Has Transformed Crime and the Life Trajectories of Young Americans’ by Robert J. Sampson

A Lexicon for the Linguistically Curious

REVIEW: 'Schott's Significa: A Miscellany of Secret Languages' by Ben Schott

The Slavery Story You Won’t Learn in School

REVIEW: ‘Captives and Companions: A History of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Islamic World’ by Justin Marozzi

Time to Man Up

REVIEW: ‘Notes on Being a Man’ by Scott Galloway

Stiff Competition

REVIEW: ‘The Doctors’ Riot of 1788: Body Snatching, Bloodletting, and Anatomy in America’ by Andy McPhee

A Book to Sink Your Teeth Into

REVIEW: ‘Hannibal Lecter: A Life’ by Brian Raftery

A Soulless Argument

REVIEW: ‘The Soul Delusion’ by David P. Barash