Reading List: 5 Books to Understand Modern China
In what can seem a universe within itself, Kerry Brown, author of The New Emperors, selects five essential reads on modern China. Each year, a multitude of books inundates the literary landscape with a...
View ArticleTabloid Academia
When it comes to discussing art in newspapers, does the media’s emphasis on provocation merely reduce issues into straightforward oppositions, and at the cost of developed argument and consistency?...
View ArticleJournalism Ethics Codes for the Digital Age
What will make journalism better in the 21st century is having journalists who think and act in morally sophisticated ways. Are ethics codes the way of fostering this? I’ve always maintained a somewhat...
View ArticleTotal Politics Book Awards 2013
We are delighted, and believe me eager, to announce that I.B.Tauris have received five nominations in the new political book awards launched this year by Total Politics. The International Relations...
View ArticleWim Wenders on Claire Denis
Later this month we publish The Films of Claire Denis: Intimacy at the Border. Edited by Marjorie Vecchio, and including interviews with Denis’ crew and the director herself, this volume throws...
View ArticleNEW: Exclusive extract from ‘All the Battles’ by Maan Abu Taleb
Saed leads a comfortable, yet boring, middle-class life. That is, until one afternoon, he leaves work early and crosses into the rough side of town, in search of a run-down boxing club. His obsession...
View ArticleCelebrating 100 Years of Women’s Suffrage in the UK – Essential Reading List
It has been 100 years since women in Britain were given the right to vote. There is still a lot of work to be done in order to achieve true equality for women, especially in light of the recent...
View ArticleThe Lancashire Witches
The arraignment of the Lancashire witches in the assizes of Lancaster during 1612 is England’s most notorious witch-trial – here Philip Almond recounts the drama and paranoia of those volatile times....
View ArticleThe Evolution of the Hollywood Family Film
In the age of the ‘kidult’, is the term ‘family film’ still an appropriate description for all-age entertainment? Hollywood family films are very much on the agenda. Franchises like Harry Potter,...
View ArticleQ&A with Philip Almond, author of AFTERLIFE
Alex Wright, Executive Editor at I.B.Tauris, talked to Philip Almond about his new book Afterlife: A History of Life After Death, which is published on 9 June 2016. ALEX: Phil, I realise to my great...
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