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  • Wednesday, 4 October, 2023
    ReviewBiography and memoir
    Pure Wit — Margaret Cavendish as protofeminist

    Dismissed by Virginia Woolf as ‘an elf’, the prolific 17th-century poet and playwright is given a more positive appraisal in a new biography

  • Tuesday, 3 October, 2023
    ReviewHistory books
    A Northern Wind by David Kynaston — taking the temperature

    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

  • Friday, 29 September, 2023
    ReviewBooks
    The best books of the week

    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

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  • Friday, 29 September, 2023
    The best books of the week
    The Nobel Family — model capitalists amid Russia’s revolutions

    An eloquent account of how the Swedish family built and lost an oil dynasty

  • Friday, 29 September, 2023
    The best books of the week
    The infected blood scandal — and how it was allowed to happen

    Victims still await compensation from a case of shocking government indifference, professional malpractice and commercial greed

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  • Friday, 29 September, 2023
    The best books of the week
    Extremely Online — attention-deficit disorder

    Taylor Lorenz charts the highs and lows of social media’s dramatic rewiring of modern capitalism

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  • Thursday, 28 September, 2023
    The best books of the week
    Return of the Caesars: the making of emperors and dictators

    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

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  • Wednesday, 27 September, 2023
    The best books of the week
    The Maverick — George Weidenfeld, publisher to saints and sinners

    Thomas Harding’s biography uncovers the secrets of a chameleonic outsider who made himself a fixture of the cultural establishment

  • Wednesday, 20 September, 2023
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    Goth by Lol Tolhurst — doom and musical gloom

    Funereal outfits, trippy guitars, thunderous drums: goth music is one of the most enduring sub-genres in rock. But why?

  • Wednesday, 20 September, 2023
    ReviewFT Books Essay
    Germany’s chaotic year: 1923 and the lessons for today

    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

  • Tuesday, 19 September, 2023
    ReviewBusiness books
    FT Business Books — what to read this month

    Guides to work satisfaction and dispatches from middle age

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    Alone on the high seas — two books on the allure of solitary sailing

    These first-hand accounts evoke the elation, frustrations and dangers of life in a small boat crossing the ocean

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  • Monday, 18 September, 2023
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    Underground Empire — how America uses its data networks to control the global economy

    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

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    Heated debate — notable new books on climate and the environment

    Writers tackle themes such as the roles of capitalism and ideology in the future of the planet

  • Thursday, 14 September, 2023
    ReviewHistory books
    Backbone of the Nation — the miners’ strike that divided Britain

    Robert Gildea’s oral history gives voice to the communities left scarred by the often violent industrial dispute of 1984-85

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  • Thursday, 14 September, 2023
    ReviewFT Books Essay
    AI and the next great tech shift

    From technology containment to political power and digital regulation, three books about the artificial intelligence revolution

  • Wednesday, 13 September, 2023
    ReviewHistory books
    Eighteen Days in October — how Israel turned the tide

    An enthralling account with contemporary resonance examines how Israel regained the initiative in 1973’s Yom Kippur war

  • Wednesday, 13 September, 2023
    ReviewBiography and memoir
    Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson — clashes of the titan

    An exploration of the tech billionaire’s epic feats, which is long on reporting detail but shorter on the meaning of Musk

  • Monday, 11 September, 2023
    ReviewPolitical books
    Inside the corridors of power — the best new politics books

    Rory Stewart produces a genuine political classic, liberalism comes under attack — and a reminder of the values being fought over in Ukraine

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  • Monday, 11 September, 2023
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    The Dictionary People — a homage to the eclectic lexicographers of the OED

    Sarah Ogilvie brings to life the unexpected characters — from murderers and a vicar to Karl Marx’s daughter — who were its early contributors

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  • Friday, 8 September, 2023
    ReviewFT Books Essay
    Oh, Vienna: what Austria’s turmoil means for the west

    Two books look at the capital’s outsized influence on western liberalism and the nation’s loudening drumbeat of far-right politics

  • Friday, 8 September, 2023
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    Spies — Russia, China and the long intelligence war with the west

    Calder Walton’s engrossing history of a century of rival spookery offers lessons for the present

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  • Thursday, 7 September, 2023
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    Waiting To Be Arrested At Night — how to confront authoritarian power

    Poet Tahir Hamut Izgil has written a compelling and elegant first-person account of resisting China’s crackdown on Islam

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  • Thursday, 7 September, 2023
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    Anansi’s Gold by Yepoka Yeebo — the greatest scam of all time?

    An illuminating story about greed and post-independence Ghana comes to some troubling conclusions

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  • Thursday, 7 September, 2023
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    Doppelganger — Naomi Klein follows her double down the rabbit hole

    How confusion with ‘Other Naomi’ led the author to explore the bizarre mirror world of conspiracy theories and polarised politics

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