Interviewer
Beatrice Wilford
Interviews by Beatrice Wilford
The Best War Writing, recommended by Kate McLoughlin
War writing extends to all sorts of genres, including blogs and Twitter. Oxford University’s Professor Kate McLoughlin, author of Authoring War: The Literary Representation of War from the Iliad to Iraq recommends some of her favourite books of war writing.
The best books on Friendship, recommended by Emma Jane Unsworth
The award-winning writer recommends the best books on friendship, the theme of her latest novel Animals.
The Best Autofiction, recommended by Juliet Jacques
Autofiction is writing that blurs the boundaries between autobiography and fiction. The writer of Trans: A Memoir, Juliet Jacques, picks her top five examples of the genre.
The best books on English Church Music, recommended by Andrew Gant
Think you’re not interested in church music? Think again. Read this interview and you’ll soon find yourself ordering some books about it too. And a Happy Christmas from your editors at Five Books.
The best books on John Berger, recommended by Tom Overton
The biographer and editor of John Berger reveals how Berger’s self-characterisation as a storyteller is visible across the numerous genres he writes in.
The best books on London Fog, recommended by Christine L. Corton
Christine L. Corton describes how Londoners loved and hated the fog that defined their city for over 200 years. Fog bought confusion, suicide and death; but also anonymity, mystery and beauty. Here, she picks the best five books on the pea-souper
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The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion
by Leo Steinberg -
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Image on the Edge: The Margins of Medieval Art
by Michael Camille -
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The Reformation of the Image
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Early Medieval Bible Illumination and the Ashburnham Pentateuch
by Dorothy Verkerk -
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Anachronic Renaissance
by Alexander Nagel & Christopher Wood
The best books on Reinterpreting Medieval Art, recommended by Marc Michael Epstein
The best books on Reinterpreting Medieval Art, recommended by Marc Michael Epstein
The professor of religion explains how medieval Jews and Christians collaborated. He recommends five books that have changed the way we look at medieval art.
The best books on Race and American Policing, recommended by Joe Domanick
The author and journalist describes how racism, violence, and corruption became entrenched in police departments across America. He picks five books describing a stark reality, and suggests a blueprint for change
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City of Refuge
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The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast
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Breach of Faith: Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City
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Disaster: Hurricane Katrina and the Failure of Homeland Security
by Christopher Cooper and Robert Block -
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New Orleans: The Making of an Urban Landscape
by Peirce F. Lewis
The best books on Hurricane Katrina, recommended by Gary Rivlin
The best books on Hurricane Katrina, recommended by Gary Rivlin
Katrina was not a natural disaster but an engineering one, says the journalist and author. He chooses the best books on Hurricane Katrina, ranging from a novel to a geographical biography of New Orleans.
The best books on Philosophy in a Divided World, recommended by Carlos Fraenkel
A culture of debate, in which people of all backgrounds can openly discuss the truth, is philosophy’s real answer to conflict, says philosopher Carlos Fraenkel.