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  • Friday, 24 March, 2023
    The best books of the week
    The Peking Express — a film-like true story of a train hijacking

    The ‘Lincheng incident’ pitted bandits against a wealthy elite — and is recreated in James Zimmerman’s immersive account

  • Wednesday, 8 March, 2023
    Review
    The Collaborators — case studies in survival and betrayal

    Ian Buruma profiles three figures whose wartime actions remained mired in accusations of treachery — and delusion

  • Friday, 3 March, 2023
    Review
    The Other Renaissance — the northern age of discovery

    Paul Strathern’s lively portraits prove that Italy was not the only part of Europe shaping the modern world

  • Friday, 3 March, 2023
    The Weekend Essay
    Apocalypse then: lessons from history in tackling climate shocks

    What can we learn from studying thousands of years of humanity’s response to natural disasters?

  • Friday, 3 March, 2023
    ReviewFT Books Essay
    A difficult reckoning with Ukraine’s wartime history

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

  • Thursday, 23 February, 2023
    FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival
    The Earth Transformed — an epic survey of our interaction with the environment

    By foregrounding humanity’s impact on nature and climate, Peter Frankopan reframes what matters most in the history of our planet

  • Friday, 17 February, 2023
    ReviewBiography and memoir
    Voyager — the memory of Pinochet’s victims, written in the stars

    In her extraordinary memoir, Chilean writer Nona Fernández combines astronomy and neuroscience with a refusal to forget

  • Thursday, 16 February, 2023
    ReviewFT Books Essay
    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

  • Friday, 10 February, 2023
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Wise Gals by Nathalia Holt — the female spies who came in from the cold

    Rich with detail, this gripping book charts the extraordinary bravery and professional barriers faced by women working in intelligence

  • Wednesday, 8 February, 2023
    Tony Barber
    De Gaulle grandson veers off the statesman’s track

    History contains some notable examples of progeny with more extreme politics than their parents or grandparents

  • Wednesday, 8 February, 2023
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Pirate Enlightenment by David Graeber — sea battles and radical social experiments

    A case for swashbucklers in Madagascar first discovering the ideals of reason, liberty and toleration

  • Friday, 3 February, 2023
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    The Museum of Other People — who owns history?

    Adam Kuper takes a provocative look at questions of ethnography, ownership and restitution

  • Thursday, 26 January, 2023
    FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival
    On Savage Shores — overturning Columbus’s ‘discovery’ narrative

    This courageous account puts the indigenous Americans who came to Europe, most as slaves, at the centre of the story

  • Wednesday, 25 January, 2023
    Review
    Red Memory — enforced forgetting and the legacy of the Cultural Revolution

    Tania Branigan’s intimate stories of survivors capture a traumatic decade for many that still informs modern China

  • Wednesday, 25 January, 2023
    ReviewFT Books Essay
    How America picks its battles

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

  • Tuesday, 24 January, 2023
    Review
    Parisian Days by Banine — model citizen

    Swept along by revolutionary forces, the young émigré seeks to realise her dreams of ‘freedom and fantasy’ in 1920s France

  • Monday, 23 January, 2023
    ReviewFiction
    The New Life by Tom Crewe — mind-body complex

    An intense and precise novel that explores the changing sexual mores of Victorian society through the eyes of two ethical pioneers

  • Tuesday, 17 January, 2023
    Review
    The long shadow of Iraq and its lessons today

    Melvyn Leffler’s new history of the war against Saddam reveals how guilt, fear and hubris led to a fateful military intervention

  • Friday, 13 January, 2023
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    The Rise of Corporate Feminism — Allison Elias on the injustice of the ‘office wife’

    A riveting account of how secretaries were left behind in the fight for equality in the workplace

  • Wednesday, 14 December, 2022
    ReviewArts books
    The Artist’s Studio — of shivering nudes and cultural pilgrimage

    James Hall reveals some surprises in his diverting history of these ‘crucibles of creativity’

  • 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

  • Thursday, 24 November, 2022
    FT SeriesBest books of the year 2022
    Best books of 2022: History

    Tony Barber selects his must-read titles

  • Tuesday, 22 November, 2022
    Special ReportFT Wealth: December 2022
    Book review: ‘Crassus’ by Peter Stothard

    Power, ambition and failure in the story of the ‘first tycoon’, ancient Rome’s richest man

  • Friday, 4 November, 2022
    ReviewFT Books Essay
    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
    Review
    Mussolini remembered: benign perceptions of the fascist leader have helped Italy’s far right

    Two timely books — by Paul Corner and John Foot — argue convincingly that the nation exonerated itself over crimes carried out under the Duce

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