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  • Thursday, 28 September, 2023
    The best books of the week
    Return of the Caesars: the making of emperors and dictators

    Autocracy is something today’s democracies thought they had left behind, but two books — one focused on antiquity, the other on modern history — shed light on how it is enabled

    A statue of Julius Caesar in Naples looks out to sea towards a couple of container ships
  • Wednesday, 20 September, 2023
    ReviewHistory books
    Germany’s chaotic year: 1923 and the lessons for today

    Crisis bred crisis in the Weimar Republic. On the centenary of the turbulent period, two books offer a reminder of the vigilance required to sustain democracy

  • Thursday, 14 September, 2023
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    AI and the next great tech shift

    From technology containment to political power and digital regulation, three books about the artificial intelligence revolution

  • Friday, 8 September, 2023
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Oh, Vienna: what Austria’s turmoil means for the west

    Two books look at the capital’s outsized influence on western liberalism and the nation’s loudening drumbeat of far-right politics

  • Wednesday, 30 August, 2023
    ReviewScience books
    Space odysseys — trips to discover the cosmos

    Three books explore the future of galactic travel and the sights and experiences that await

    A mass of clouds and starts in the sky
  • Wednesday, 23 August, 2023
    ReviewHistory books
    The delusions that put Putin on the path to war

    In two piercing accounts, Sergei Medvedev and Jade McGlynn expose the manipulation of history used to justify Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

    Vladimir Putin appears on a big screen, flanked by veterans in military uniform, to address a parade of soldiers on Moscow’s Red Square in 2021
  • Wednesday, 16 August, 2023
    ReviewBooks
    A mind-infecting virus: the dark dreams of QAnon

    Three books look at how outlandish conspiracy theories have laid the groundwork for authoritarianism in America

  • Friday, 11 August, 2023
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Shadows at Noon — Joya Chatterji exposes the beating heart of south Asia

    A fast-paced history blends the writer’s own experiences with an examination of the region’s political and cultural contradictions and commonalities

  • Wednesday, 2 August, 2023
    ReviewBiography and memoir
    Two sides of George Orwell

    Contrasting perspectives on the author — and the invisible life of his first wife

  • Thursday, 27 July, 2023
    ReviewHistory books
    What makes empires rise and fall?

    From Ancient Rome to China’s Huawei, two new titles look to history as a guide for the geopolitical shape of things to come

    Three columns of an ancient Roman temple stand against a sunny blue sky
  • Thursday, 20 July, 2023
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Are we forgetting how to read?

    From stone tablet to Kindle, two surveys of the history of the book probe what comes next, in the era of e-readers and text-guzzling AI

    In a painting dating from the 1830s, a bearded man in purple sits in a dark room arranging blocks of print in the light from a window
  • Wednesday, 12 July, 2023
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    The search for a new language about race

    From white supremacism to census ethnicity questions, a clutch of new books enters the debate over racial identity

    A black-and-white photograph dated 1954 of a black Jamaican man in a smart white suit being checked by white customs officials in England. Behind him stands a woman in a smart suit
  • Wednesday, 5 July, 2023
    ReviewBooks
    Consider every drop — manifestos for saving rivers, lakes and oceans

    Three new books help recalibrate our relationship to the water that sustains us

  • Friday, 30 June, 2023
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    What is the life expectancy of the NHS?

    As Britain’s National Health Service marks its 75th birthday — amid doctors’ strikes and record waiting lists — two books trace its foundation, survival and future prognosis

    Nurses wheel a patient into the hospital
  • Wednesday, 14 June, 2023
    ReviewBooks
    How migratory birds teach us to be better stewards of the Earth

    Three books on birds and their biannual odysseys encourage deeper thought on our relationship to the planet as a whole

    A small black bird in a field
  • Thursday, 8 June, 2023
    ReviewHistory books
    Shadowlands of empire: central Europe’s nervous east-west gaze

    Putin’s war on Ukraine exposes not only a rift between Russia and the west, but also divisions within eastern Europe

    A long line of vehicles and people on a road, heading towards the sunset
  • Wednesday, 31 May, 2023
    ReviewBooks
    How to rethink climate change

    Three books — including a novel — overturn assumptions about how politics, economics and science should combat global warming

    Wind turbines in the sea, seen from a boat on a misty day
  • Wednesday, 24 May, 2023
    ReviewEconomics books
    The Economic Government of the World — an end to globalisation?

    Martin Daunton’s history of trade liberalisation shows that capricious US opinion has always mattered most

    Cranes and containers line a stretch of waterfront
  • Wednesday, 17 May, 2023
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Triumph or tragedy? — India’s demographic dilemmas

    Three new books consider the country’s economic potential and pitfalls from different perspectives

  • Thursday, 4 May, 2023
    InterviewBooks
    Linton Kwesi Johnson: ‘We were the rebel generation’

    The Jamaican-born poet/activist on Britain’s imperialist mentality and his five-decade search for ‘this elusive thing called poetry’

  • Wednesday, 26 April, 2023
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    BuzzFeed, Gawker and the new media rivalry that went viral

    Ben Smith charts the history of online news and the trouble chasing internet traffic

    A man and woman in an office
  • Wednesday, 19 April, 2023
    ReviewBooks
    Alternative realities: caring for people with dementia

    With an ageing global population, cases of the disease continue to drastically rise. Two timely and insightful books offer help on how to support the millions of new patients

    A woman hugs her mother who is seated in front of a mural
  • Monday, 10 April, 2023
    InterviewBooks
    Sergei Lebedev: ‘If Russia is to have any future, it will have to become another country’

    The exiled Russian author on how a career in geology led him to dig into his homeland’s hidden horrors for a new short-story collection

    Sergei Lebedev photographed in Potsdam last month by Zoe Noble for the Financial Times
  • Wednesday, 5 April, 2023
    Books
    The long shadow of apartheid

    Two compelling books analyse the precarious birth of South African democracy and the continuing struggle to overcome the legacy of division

  • Tuesday, 28 March, 2023
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Ravenous by Henry Dimbleby — hungry for change

    Frustrated at continued government inaction, the adviser and Leon co-founder serves up a comprehensive and reasoned argument for a coherent food policy

    People in white suits handling chickens
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