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  • Tuesday, 28 March, 2023
    Review
    Against the World — a panoramic history of anti-globalisation

    Tara Zahra deftly weaves cutting-edge scholarship and human stories into concerns about democracy, markets and nation-states

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    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

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    The uncertain direction of Britain’s Conservative party; the medical uses of digital doppelgängers; the Chinese train heist that inspired Mao; a new novel from Philip Hensher; a history of male dominance; the tangled relationship of religion and science; how Shakespeare’s ‘First Folio’ was published; a Kafkaesque story from Hong Kong — plus Pilita Clark’s round-up of titles on the environment

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    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

  • Friday, 24 March, 2023
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    Shakespeare’s Book — the course of bookselling never did run smooth

    Chris Laoutaris’s engaging account of how Shakespeare’s ‘First Folio’ was published 400 years ago

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    The Patriarchs — the story of male dominance

    Angela Saini looks at how and why so many societies formed where men gained power over women

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    Magisteria — science, religion and their tangled relationship

    Nicholas Spencer’s highly readable history explores changing notions of human nature, and asks: who decides who we are?

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    FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival
    The very Christian roots of Oxford radicalism

    The paradox of secularism and the contemporary value of progress is that the origins of both lie in the seedbed of a religious past

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    Robert Pickering’s book is a fascinating account of the triumphs and travails of a storied financial institution

  • Thursday, 16 March, 2023
    Review
    Courting India — the unpromising origins of British power

    Nandini Das’s study of London’s first emissary to the subcontinent is a triumph of writing and scholarship

  • Thursday, 16 March, 2023
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    Kennan: A Life Between Worlds — lessons for the containment of Russia

    Frank Costigliola’s piercing biography shows the prescience of a US diplomat who opposed Nato expansion and foretold war in Ukraine

  • Wednesday, 15 March, 2023
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    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

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    Dance Your Way Home — our need to boogie on down

    Emma Warren’s book is a clarion call to get up on the dance floor, which she calls ‘a technology of togetherness’

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    Where should the lines be drawn in the encouragement, promotion and marketing of stories about the misery of others?

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    The authors of ‘Risky Business’ highlight what economists call a selection market, where insurers try to pick the right customers — and avoid the wrong ones

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    ReviewPolitical books
    Inside the Deal — how Brexit got done

    Stefaan De Rynck argues that Brussels took control of the process from the start

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

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    FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival
    The Real Work by Adam Gopnik — the mystery of mastery

    The New Yorker writer conquers his fears in a lovely book that is a fine testament to wonder

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    ReviewHistory books
    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
    FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival
    Homelands by Timothy Garton Ash — an illuminating history of Europe

    From the ‘miracle’ of 1989 to the return of state thuggery, readers could hardly wish for a wiser guide to the continent’s triumphs and travails

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

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

  • Wednesday, 1 March, 2023
    ReviewBiography and memoir
    Manchester Unspun — the story of the city’s resurrection

    From the opening of the Haçienda to the property boom, adopted Mancunian Andy Spinoza tells a vivid story with the pride of a native

  • Tuesday, 28 February, 2023
    FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival
    Anaximander — Carlo Rovelli on the birth of critical thinking

    How a Greek philosopher’s ideas about the Earth and the cosmos remind us of the need to nurture scientific scepticism and rationality

  • Tuesday, 28 February, 2023
    FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival
    Confessions by Edward Stourton — the journalist re-examines his life

    The BBC presenter reminisces about the scrapes and japes of a life lived inside the establishment

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