Arts
Off with their heads! This month we sympathized less with French aristocrats than author BARONESS Emmushka Orczy might wish. Blakeney is a himbo, Marguerite lives in the pretty people bubble, and Batman is fascist. Recommendations:* Lauren Willig, Secret history of the Pink Carnation* Paula Volsky, Illusion* Simon Schama, Citizens * Alexis de Tocqueville, The Old Regime and the Revolution (L’ancien Regime et la Revolution)* Hilary Mantel’s, A Place of Greater Safety