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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
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
From technology containment to political power and digital regulation, three books about the artificial intelligence revolution
Two books look at the capital’s outsized influence on western liberalism and the nation’s loudening drumbeat of far-right politics
Three books explore the future of galactic travel and the sights and experiences that await
In two piercing accounts, Sergei Medvedev and Jade McGlynn expose the manipulation of history used to justify Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Three books look at how outlandish conspiracy theories have laid the groundwork for authoritarianism in America
A fast-paced history blends the writer’s own experiences with an examination of the region’s political and cultural contradictions and commonalities
Contrasting perspectives on the author — and the invisible life of his first wife
From Ancient Rome to China’s Huawei, two new titles look to history as a guide for the geopolitical shape of things to come
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
From white supremacism to census ethnicity questions, a clutch of new books enters the debate over racial identity
Three new books help recalibrate our relationship to the water that sustains us
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
Three books on birds and their biannual odysseys encourage deeper thought on our relationship to the planet as a whole
Putin’s war on Ukraine exposes not only a rift between Russia and the west, but also divisions within eastern Europe
Three books — including a novel — overturn assumptions about how politics, economics and science should combat global warming
Martin Daunton’s history of trade liberalisation shows that capricious US opinion has always mattered most
Three new books consider the country’s economic potential and pitfalls from different perspectives
The Jamaican-born poet/activist on Britain’s imperialist mentality and his five-decade search for ‘this elusive thing called poetry’
Ben Smith charts the history of online news and the trouble chasing internet traffic
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
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
Two compelling books analyse the precarious birth of South African democracy and the continuing struggle to overcome the legacy of division
Frustrated at continued government inaction, the adviser and Leon co-founder serves up a comprehensive and reasoned argument for a coherent food policy
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