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  • Friday, 12 August, 2022
    ReviewBooks
    The best books of the week

    The precarity of those priced out by Britain’s housing crisis; a master coder’s jargon-free guide to cyber crime and hacking; the memoirs of American poet Robert Lowell; a bold new novel from Emma Donoghue, author of ‘Room’; a history of British tourism scrutinises the benefits of travel; themes of water in destiny in Barney Norris’s fourth novel — plus a round-up of the best new audio books

  • Thursday, 11 August, 2022
    The best books of the week
    If It’s Smart, It’s Vulnerable by Mikko Hypponen — cyber space and how to defend it

    The master coder and superb communicator provides a refreshingly jargon-free introduction to the history of hacking

  • Thursday, 11 August, 2022
    The best books of the week
    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

  • Tuesday, 9 August, 2022
    The best books of the week
    Robert Lowell’s Memoirs — vital lessons from a vanished age

    The American poet’s gathered autobiographical reflections, many written as therapy, reveal his wisdom and inspirations

  • Tuesday, 9 August, 2022
    The best books of the week
    Tourists by Lucy Lethbridge — should have stayed at home?

    The benefits of travel come under sharp scrutiny in a roving history of British tourism

  • Thursday, 4 August, 2022
    Review
    Oil Leaders by Ibrahim AlMuhanna — pulling Opec’s strings

    A fascinating insider’s view of 40 years of Saudi oil market leadership — and its global impact

  • Thursday, 4 August, 2022
    Review
    The Lazarus Heist — a rollicking ride through North Korean cyber crime

    Geoff White’s riveting investigation reveals a world of shadowy criminals, sophisticated hacks and bungled schemes

  • Wednesday, 3 August, 2022
    Review
    Look! We Have Come Through! — lockdown with DH Lawrence

    The feminist writer Lara Feigel’s counter-intuitive use of the novelist as a guide to life offers unexpected insights to the urgent questions of our age

  • Tuesday, 2 August, 2022
    ReviewEconomics books
    The Currency of Politics — how Aristotle, Marx and Keynes made us think about money

    Stefan Eich’s book is a splendidly clear guide to the intellectual history of monetary policy — and how to tackle what comes next

  • Friday, 29 July, 2022
    ReviewHistory books
    Brainwashed — a thought-provoking history of mental manipulation

    Daniel Pick explores the power and paranoia of psychological suggestion

  • Thursday, 28 July, 2022
    ReviewHistory books
    The Last Revolutionaries — the political trial that changed France

    Laura Mason on a pivotal moment that toppled a government — and the warning it offers for modern democracies

  • Wednesday, 27 July, 2022
    InterviewMusic
    Kraftwerk’s Karl Bartos: ‘We were overwhelmed by technology’

    The German band’s former member recalls the promises and perils of a life making electronic music

  • Monday, 25 July, 2022
    Review
    The Passengers by Will Ashon — voices of present-day Britain

    Improvisation and serendipity thrive in this engrossing collage of conversations with strangers

  • Friday, 22 July, 2022
    ReviewHistory books
    The Wrath to Come — American myths and white supremacism

    Sarah Churchwell homes in on ‘Gone With the Wind’ to unpick the romanticised history of the South, segregation and civil war

  • Friday, 22 July, 2022
    Review
    How Minds Change by David McRaney — the power of persuasion

    If you really want to shift long-held beliefs, you have to listen, reveals a new book on the science of opinion

  • Thursday, 21 July, 2022
    ReviewHistory books
    Exiles by William Atkins — crime and banishment

    The lives of three 19th-century dissidents are explored through a thrilling mix of history, travelogue and biography

  • Wednesday, 20 July, 2022
    FT Books Essay
    How Africa can rethink its relationship with the west

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

  • Tuesday, 19 July, 2022
    Review
    Two and Twenty by Sachin Khajuria — making the case for private equity

    An insider’s account of the controversial investment industry preaches to the converted

  • Friday, 15 July, 2022
    Nilanjana Roy
    The freedom and fellowship of writers in exile

    Fleeing writers are often the canaries in a coal mine, one of the first signs of a troubled nation

  • Friday, 15 July, 2022
    ReviewFiction
    Ancestry by Simon Mawer — out of the ordinary

    A novel that blends fact and fiction brings to life the voices of the author’s working-class forebears

  • Friday, 15 July, 2022
    ReviewBooks
    Translating Myself and Others — giving voice to the world

    Jhumpa Lahiri’s essay collection offers a rare first-person account of the urgent, political and often hidden art of translation

  • Thursday, 14 July, 2022
    Review
    The Metaverse by Matthew Ball — a glimpse of the future

    Overhyped tech bubble or next-generation internet platform? An intriguing book that explores how the metaverse could operate

  • Wednesday, 13 July, 2022
    ReviewHistory books
    Hoax: The Popish Plot That Never Was — old fake news

    Victor Stater’s fascinating, entertaining history revisits one of the most preposterous conspiracy theories of all time

  • Wednesday, 13 July, 2022
    ReviewBusiness books
    FT business books: what to read this month

    The leadership secrets of American football coach Nick Saban — and how to manage uncertainty

  • Tuesday, 12 July, 2022
    Review
    Meet Me by the Fountain — shoppers’ delight

    Alexandra Lange traces the history of the mall from its 1950s heyday to its faltering present

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