Detectives in the Shadows: A Hard-Boiled History, by Susanna Lee Clive Bloom finds the rap sheet on an iconic cultural figure frustratingly incomplete Clive Bloom 8月 13日
Night Raiders: Burglary & the Making of Modern Urban Life in London, 1860-1968, by Eloise Moss Clive Bloom considers the development of a particularly disturbing form of crime Clive Bloom 7月 25日
Playboys and Mayfair Men: Crime, Class, Masculinity, and Fascism in 1930s London, by Angus McLaren Clive Bloom enjoys a sociological study of why a group of rich layabouts became crooks – and how society dealt with them Clive Bloom 11月 23日
Revolutionary Yiddishland: A History of?Jewish Radicalism, by Alain Brossat and Sylvie Klingberg, translated by David Fernbach Clive Bloom on the utopians who struggled to realise their dream of a building a secular socialist Jewish state in Europe Clive Bloom 9月 15日
Imperial lather Support for the monarchy is not this sceptred isle's only narrative, insists Clive Bloom. From Thomas Paine to bolshie bunting-subverters, arguments for a Republic weave in and out of our national story Clive Bloom 4月 28日
