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Tara Zahra deftly weaves cutting-edge scholarship and human stories into concerns about democracy, markets and nation-states
Frustrated at continued government inaction, the adviser and Leon co-founder serves up a comprehensive and reasoned argument for a coherent food policy
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
The ‘Lincheng incident’ pitted bandits against a wealthy elite — and is recreated in James Zimmerman’s immersive account
Chris Laoutaris’s engaging account of how Shakespeare’s ‘First Folio’ was published 400 years ago
Angela Saini looks at how and why so many societies formed where men gained power over women
Nicholas Spencer’s highly readable history explores changing notions of human nature, and asks: who decides who we are?
Engrossing insights into dilemmas from fossil fuels to flying — and the political questions they pose
The paradox of secularism and the contemporary value of progress is that the origins of both lie in the seedbed of a religious past
Robert Pickering’s book is a fascinating account of the triumphs and travails of a storied financial institution
Nandini Das’s study of London’s first emissary to the subcontinent is a triumph of writing and scholarship
Frank Costigliola’s piercing biography shows the prescience of a US diplomat who opposed Nato expansion and foretold war in Ukraine
Three informative books offering first-hand perspectives of early motherhood are a reminder that raising children should be a collective responsibility
Emma Warren’s book is a clarion call to get up on the dance floor, which she calls ‘a technology of togetherness’
Where should the lines be drawn in the encouragement, promotion and marketing of stories about the misery of others?
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
Stefaan De Rynck argues that Brussels took control of the process from the start
Ian Buruma profiles three figures whose wartime actions remained mired in accusations of treachery — and delusion
The New Yorker writer conquers his fears in a lovely book that is a fine testament to wonder
Paul Strathern’s lively portraits prove that Italy was not the only part of Europe shaping the modern world
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
Two new books explore aspects of Ukraine’s troubled 20th-century history
From the opening of the Haçienda to the property boom, adopted Mancunian Andy Spinoza tells a vivid story with the pride of a native
How a Greek philosopher’s ideas about the Earth and the cosmos remind us of the need to nurture scientific scepticism and rationality
The BBC presenter reminisces about the scrapes and japes of a life lived inside the establishment
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