Personal portrait
A photo of author Daniel Finkelstein’s father and grandmother in 1932, whose stories he traces in a book described by Roger Moorhouse as “moving and enlightening in equal measure”
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Out of the depths
The ancient Greenland shark is one of the animals covered in a “quirky, funny and conversational but also deeply tragic” history of humanity’s relationship with animals – one of James Holland’s literary picks of 2023
Crossing continents
The harrowing story of the Inuit Arnaq and Nutaaq features in a new book about Indigenous Americans in Europe, championed by historians
Emily Brand (p66) and Hannah Skoda (p70)