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Articles by Karen Shook
Shelf life: The historian and author of Empire of Things on Karl May, Fernand Braudel, Elena Ferrante and the enduring pleasures of atlases and dictionaries
In-depth discussion with Gangs of Russia author
From Soviet tanks on the streets of Hungary to the 30th birthday of a founding text of queer studies: academic books worth adding to your reading list
The author of Crunch Lit on Enid Blyton, the miners' strike, 'Marmite' books and her Pisa Pile of books waiting to be read
The Pulitzer prizewinning novelist and academic on Robert Louis Stevenson, Piers the Plowman and buttered egg
Wageningen University president and author of Hamburgers in Paradise: The Stories Behind the Food We Eat on her appetite for good books, from Primo Levi to Claudia Roden.
From Saudi Arabia’s religious rebels to TTIP's unknown unknowns: new academic books worth adding to your reading list
Scary puddings, the art of succinctness and First World War myth-making: perspectives from the author of Have Bacteria Won?
From the University of Chicago to ancient Rome via the ‘palaeo diet’ and China’s Three Gorges Dam: new academic books worth adding to your reading list
Vespucci, French military glory and recondite legal strategies: bibliographic confessions from the author of A Foot in the River: Why Our Lives Change – and the Limits of Evolution
Books interview: Karen Shook speaks to David Wootton, author of The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution
Karen Shook speaks to the author of SlutWalk: Feminism, Activism and Media
Books editor Karen Shook introduces our latest literary podcast
Flemish government proposes rise despite student protests
In an election outcome that surprised both political scientists and the public, Canada’s pro-business Conservative Party has formed a majority government for the first time since 1988.
Surveying the forthcoming crop of scholarly books, Karen Shook spots engaging reads suitable for the poolside lounger and weighter tomes for air-conditioned studies
