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  • Wednesday, 31 May, 2023
    The best books of the week
    How to rethink climate change

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Wednesday, 22 March, 2023
    ReviewPolitical books
    Masters of reinvention — where next for the Conservative party?

    Three new books assess the social, historical and ideological factors shaping Tory electoral strategy under Rishi Sunak

  • Wednesday, 15 March, 2023
    ReviewBooks
    What is a mother’s role?

    Three informative books offering first-hand perspectives of early motherhood are a reminder that raising children should be a collective responsibility

  • Friday, 3 March, 2023
    ReviewHistory books
    A difficult reckoning with Ukraine’s wartime history

    Two new books explore aspects of Ukraine’s troubled 20th-century history

  • Thursday, 16 February, 2023
    ReviewHistory books
    The 1600s: England’s century of bloodshed and revolution

    With conflict over Ireland, Scotland and Europe, monarchy and governance, the 17th century had uneasy parallels with today

  • Thursday, 9 February, 2023
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Death of a loved one: poignant reflections on grief

    Discomfort around dying, life after loss, sources of solace — three timely books bring fresh perspectives to bereavement

  • Thursday, 2 February, 2023
    ReviewFiction
    Salman Rushdie’s Victory City is a testimony to the power of words

    The author who was brutally attacked last year conjures up a fantasy world where India’s great religions come together

  • Wednesday, 25 January, 2023
    ReviewPolitical books
    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
    FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival
    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
    FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival
    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?

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