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  • Wednesday, 25 January, 2023
    The best books of the week
    How America picks its battles

    Isolationist superpower or still ‘the world’s policeman’? Two books explore the competing impulses in US politics

  • Wednesday, 18 January, 2023
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Non-fiction for kids: big books for little people

    . . . but getting the messaging correct is not always child’s play

  • Friday, 13 January, 2023
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Questions of privilege

    Is the term ‘white privilege’ doing more harm than good? Three insightful books look at anti-Semitism, migration and class amid the battle to end racism

  • Thursday, 5 January, 2023
    ReviewScience books
    Can awe change the way we see the world?

    Two books encourage us to look at life afresh — via the senses and cultivating a sense of wonder in our day-to-day lives

  • Thursday, 15 December, 2022
    ReviewBooks
    Philosophy for life

    What can the age-old discipline of inquiry teach us about how we live our lives?

  • Thursday, 1 December, 2022
    ReviewHistory books
    Poisoning, adultery, incest, murder and mayhem: a family history of humanity

    From Genghis Khan to Caesar, Simon Sebag Montefiore’s entertaining new take on the history of the world is told via some rather troubling relatives

  • Friday, 18 November, 2022
    ReviewBooks
    The masculinity crisis

    Three books examine the challenges — from schoolyard to workplace — faced by boys and men as they adapt to their changing status in the modern world

  • Wednesday, 9 November, 2022
    ReviewFiction
    The strange dreams of Cormac McCarthy

    Sixteen years after The Road, the arrival of two new novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris, marks a major literary event

  • Friday, 4 November, 2022
    ReviewHistory books
    The legacies of the Ottoman Empire

    A century after its demise, the effects of the end of empire are still being felt

  • Thursday, 27 October, 2022
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    US universities and their role in a country at war with itself

    America’s higher education leads the world — yet at home it feeds social inequality and economic stress. Can it be fixed?

  • Wednesday, 19 October, 2022
    ReviewBooks
    Why should we care about TS Eliot’s The Waste Land?

    Two books — by Matthew Hollis and Robert Crawford — mark the centenary of a landmark in literature, one of the most admired and imitated poems ever written

  • Wednesday, 12 October, 2022
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Megathreats by Nouriel Roubini — an avalanche of coming disasters

    The economist who predicted the 2008 crash warns of disturbingly plausible calamities, from climate to currency and debt crises

  • Tuesday, 4 October, 2022
    Non-Fiction
    Hybrid warriors and the war in Ukraine

    Two new books — by Anna Arutunyan and Samir Puri — do a fine job of placing the hostility in its larger historical, geopolitical and social contexts

  • Tuesday, 27 September, 2022
    History books
    Slouching Towards Utopia by J Bradford DeLong — fuelling America’s global dream

    An economic history of the last century recalls a period that improved and redefined the lives of billions — yet also enabled war and environmental destruction

  • Thursday, 22 September, 2022
    Non-Fiction
    An Intimate History of Evolution — the Huxleys on humans

    Alison Bashford explores the ideas of two generations of a scientific dynasty

  • Friday, 16 September, 2022
    Books
    Do ‘great men’ shape the course of world history?

    Ian Kershaw’s essays explore whether 20th-century leaders seized power through sheer force of personality or were mere opportunists

  • Thursday, 1 September, 2022
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Goethe and the giants of German Romanticism

    Two new books celebrate a group of towering intellects who helped shape today’s views of self and freedom

  • Wednesday, 24 August, 2022
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    What kind of great power will India become?

    Three books offer insights into New Delhi’s relationship with the US and China — and ask where the rising nation will go from here

  • Wednesday, 17 August, 2022
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    A Pipeline Runs Through It — the golden age of oil

    Rich in detail and deeply researched, Keith Fisher’s history covers oil from Mesopotamia to the first world war

  • Thursday, 11 August, 2022
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Britain’s housing crisis — no longer a nation of homeowners?

    Four books look beyond the clichés of the property boom to examine the precarious reality of those forced to rely on an overgrown private rental market

  • Wednesday, 27 July, 2022
    ReviewEconomics books
    A matter of interest — the battle over monetary policy

    Former Fed chair Ben Bernanke and historian Edward Chancellor offer conflicting perspectives on the crisis in central banking

  • Wednesday, 20 July, 2022
    Non-Fiction
    How Africa can rethink its relationship with the west

    Three books argue for a better understanding of the continent’s demographic and social diversity

  • Wednesday, 13 July, 2022
    ReviewHistory books
    Hong Kong’s legacy — from Chris Patten’s Diaries to City on the Edge

    Two books, one by the ex-governor and another by professor Ho-fung Hung, offer insights into China’s savage repression of the former British colony

  • Thursday, 7 July, 2022
    InterviewBooks
    Author Jamaica Kincaid: ‘I didn’t know I should be afraid’

    The Antigua-born, African-American writer on the ‘nightmare’ legacy of colonialism, the importance of finding truth in fiction — and her garden as a source of inspiration

  • Tuesday, 28 June, 2022
    Non-Fiction
    The future of farming: how to feed a troubled world

    Can agriculture solve the problems it helped to create? Three books suggest ways to sustain humanity without destroying the planet

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