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Dismissed by Virginia Woolf as ‘an elf’, the prolific 17th-century poet and playwright is given a more positive appraisal in a new biography
Between London smog and the advent of The Beatles, the latest volume in a magisterial series on post-war Britain reveals a nation poised for change
Return of the Caesars; the Nobel Russian oil dynasty; Francis Spufford’s captivating 1920 crime thriller; how social media rewired capitalism; Sebastian Faulks goes sci-fi; the contaminated blood scandal of the 1970s; a biography of maverick publisher George Weidenfeld; the Jewish experience in VIchy France — plus the best new thrillers
An eloquent account of how the Swedish family built and lost an oil dynasty
Victims still await compensation from a case of shocking government indifference, professional malpractice and commercial greed
Taylor Lorenz charts the highs and lows of social media’s dramatic rewiring of modern capitalism
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
Thomas Harding’s biography uncovers the secrets of a chameleonic outsider who made himself a fixture of the cultural establishment
Funereal outfits, trippy guitars, thunderous drums: goth music is one of the most enduring sub-genres in rock. But why?
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
Guides to work satisfaction and dispatches from middle age
These first-hand accounts evoke the elation, frustrations and dangers of life in a small boat crossing the ocean
A gripping account by Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman of the exploitation of digital systems by US agencies offers a captivating thesis — but also leaves questions unanswered
Writers tackle themes such as the roles of capitalism and ideology in the future of the planet
Robert Gildea’s oral history gives voice to the communities left scarred by the often violent industrial dispute of 1984-85
From technology containment to political power and digital regulation, three books about the artificial intelligence revolution
An enthralling account with contemporary resonance examines how Israel regained the initiative in 1973’s Yom Kippur war
An exploration of the tech billionaire’s epic feats, which is long on reporting detail but shorter on the meaning of Musk
Rory Stewart produces a genuine political classic, liberalism comes under attack — and a reminder of the values being fought over in Ukraine
Sarah Ogilvie brings to life the unexpected characters — from murderers and a vicar to Karl Marx’s daughter — who were its early contributors
Two books look at the capital’s outsized influence on western liberalism and the nation’s loudening drumbeat of far-right politics
Calder Walton’s engrossing history of a century of rival spookery offers lessons for the present
Poet Tahir Hamut Izgil has written a compelling and elegant first-person account of resisting China’s crackdown on Islam
An illuminating story about greed and post-independence Ghana comes to some troubling conclusions
How confusion with ‘Other Naomi’ led the author to explore the bizarre mirror world of conspiracy theories and polarised politics
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