Steve Donoghue

Showing 1 - 15 results of 21 for " Steve Donoghue"

Margaret Thatcher and Edward Heath, left, supposedly did not get on very well despite being from the same political party. Getty Images

'Margaret Thatcher: Herself Alone' is a biography of the Iron Lady with a 'darker and sadder tale to tell'

December 2, 2019
Author Benjamin Cohen tells a real-life story of 'cancel culture' in 19th-century India. Courtesy Harvard University Press

'An Appeal to the Ladies of Hyderabad' tells the scandalous story of Mehdi Hasan and Ellen Donnelly

October 5, 2019
A detail from the cover of 'Presidential Misconduct'. Courtesy: The New Press

Review: 'Presidential Misconduct' declares American government historically free of corruption – with one omission

August 9, 2019
Travel writer Tim Mackintosh-Smith pose during the interview at the Dubai International Writer's Centre in Dubai. Satish Kumar / The National

Review: 'Arabs' is a 'thoroughly remarkable' 3,000-year history of the region

July 21, 2019
Leap of Faith: Hubris, Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy Tragedy By Michael J. Mazarr.

Review: Michael Mazarr's careful, intelligent new book is the latest attempt to make sense out of the Iraq War

May 29, 2019
Historian Victor Davis Hanson suggests only liberal ‘snobs’ find the US president objectionable AFP

Victor Davis Hanson's defence of President Donald Trump is entirely unconvincing

May 10, 2019
This new book takes readers through the history of algorithms – and their future Getty

Kartik Hosanagar puts a human face on a world driven by technology

May 3, 2019
A population decline will occur this century, Darrell Bricker and John Ibbitson assert in 'Empty Planet'. Bloomberg

Book review: 'Empty Planet' explores the world's next biggest population threat

April 13, 2019
Destroyed Egyptian armour lines the sides of a Sinai road after it was hit by Israeli jet fighters during the 1967 war Reuters

Review: Kenneth M Pollock puts modern Arab military campaigns under the microscope

March 25, 2019
'The Age of Surveillance Capitalism' is a sobering look at our tech-driven lives. Getty Images

Book review: Why the issue of tech-driven data collection is much worse than we think

March 17, 2019
A portrait of Spotted Elk, leader of the Lakota Sioux at Wounded Knee, by C M Bell, from the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington. Getty 

Review: 'The Heartbeat of ­Wounded Knee' by David Treuer

February 3, 2019
Kabul in ruins from fighting circa 1930. Getty 

Absorbing account of Afghan history can stand test of time

December 31, 2018
A depiction of the execution of Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, in 1601 after he led a failed rebellion against Queen Elizabeth I, an event Clare Asquith says was intrinsically linked to William Shakespeare. Alamy 

Book review: 'Shakespeare and the Resistance' is a tale of a real-life Elizabethan plot

August 12, 2018
Migrants sit at a naval base after being rescued by Libyan coast guards in Tripoli last month. Almost a million people fleeing famine and warfare have made their way through hazards to reach Libya. Reuters 

Book review: Frederic Wehrey's The Burning Shores is a devastating account of Libya after Qaddafi

July 10, 2018
The book closes with an eye to the future, to digital holdings and the library’s broadening role as a community centre. Getty

Book review: Stuart Kells takes readers on a journey through the world’s great libraries

June 9, 2018