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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

    A statue of Julius Caesar in Naples looks out to sea towards a couple of container ships
  • Thursday, 21 September, 2023
    Review
    The Abuse of Power — Theresa May points the finger of blame

    Unreflective of her own failings, the former PM is big on public duty but weak on solutions

    A woman in blue walks towards a podium
  • Monday, 11 September, 2023
    Review
    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

    Montage of book covers
  • Friday, 8 September, 2023
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    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

    A man in a suit arrives at a court building. Behind him a man wearing a hat holds a box of objects and papers
  • Thursday, 24 August, 2023
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    The Loom of Time — Robert D Kaplan on the reshaping of the Middle East

    A lively and provocative new study explores the powerful forces influencing the region in a disorderly, multipolar world

    A group of six sultans and emirs sit in a line on throne-like chairs
  • Friday, 14 July, 2023
    Review
    No Trade Is Free — Robert Lighthizer’s lessons from Trump’s tariff war with China

    The former US trade representative on how America must produce as well as consume — and win friends in the global economy

    Two men in suits and ties stand side by side, smiling
  • Friday, 7 July, 2023
    Review
    Regime Change — a conservative battle cry

    Patrick Deneen’s critique of liberalism raises serious issues — but at times veers close to advocating a US theocracy

    A pair of children, one of them carrying a placard that reads ‘Leave us alone’, march along with anti-LGBTQ protesters during a demo in Glendale, California, in June 2023
  • Thursday, 22 June, 2023
    Summer Books 2023
    Best summer books of 2023: Politics

    Gideon Rachman selects his best mid-year reads

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  • Tuesday, 2 May, 2023
    ReviewHistory books
    Birchers — cabals, conspiracies and the group that paved the way for Trump

    Matthew Dallek’s fine new history looks at the 1950s conspiracy movement that radicalised America’s Republican party

    A billboard with the words ‘Have You Had Enough Co-Existence with Evil? . . . Join the John Birch Society’
  • Wednesday, 19 April, 2023
    Review
    Politics round-up — strongmen and a delicate democracy

    Vivid and engaging accounts track Putin and Xi’s misjudgments and the growing pains of Spain

    Montage of book covers
  • Thursday, 30 March, 2023
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    A Stranger in Your Own City — the post-invasion agony of the Iraqi people

    A haunting account of the impact of western policies premised on sectarianism that engulfed the country after 2003

  • Wednesday, 22 March, 2023
    ReviewFT Books Essay
    Masters of reinvention — where next for the Conservative party?

    Three new books assess the social, historical and ideological factors shaping Tory electoral strategy under Rishi Sunak

    Man near a front door
  • Friday, 10 March, 2023
    Review
    Inside the Deal — how Brexit got done

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

    Three men in suit
  • 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

  • Monday, 13 February, 2023
    Review
    Politics round-up — inside stories on turbulent times

    Observant accounts tackle Trump’s footsoldiers, Biden’s White House, Johnson’s downfall and Brussels diplomacy

    Front cover of (from left): ‘The Fight of His Life’, ‘Weapons of Mass Delusion’ and ‘And Then What?’
  • Tuesday, 7 February, 2023
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    American Resistance by David Rothkopf — managing the Trump horror show

    How Washington sustained its institutions and saved the nation from destruction

  • Wednesday, 25 January, 2023
    ReviewFT Books Essay
    How America picks its battles

    Isolationist superpower or still ‘the world’s policeman’? Two books explore the competing impulses in US politics

  • Tuesday, 17 January, 2023
    ReviewHistory books
    The long shadow of Iraq and its lessons today

    Melvyn Leffler’s new history of the war against Saddam reveals how guilt, fear and hubris led to a fateful military intervention

    A US marine carries a torn-down poster of Saddam Hussein in the suburbs of south-east Baghdad in 2003
  • Friday, 13 January, 2023
    FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival
    Questions of privilege

    Is the term ‘white privilege’ doing more harm than good? Three insightful books look at anti-Semitism, migration and class amid the battle to end racism

    A Jewish man stands against a wall
  • Thursday, 15 December, 2022
    Review
    Spies and Lies by Alex Joske — inside China’s intelligence operation

    A new book distils huge amounts of open-source information on Beijing’s Ministry of State Security

    Man in red coat on stage with children
  • Friday, 9 December, 2022
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Global Discord by Paul Tucker — holding on to values and power

    The former deputy governor of the Bank of England lays out principles for international co-operation in the face of geopolitical challenges

  • Friday, 9 December, 2022
    Non-Fiction
    A united Ireland? Perspectives on a shifting political landscape

    As unification rises up the agenda, traditional allegiances are challenged by demographic change — and the fallout from Brexit

  • Friday, 25 November, 2022
    FT SeriesBest books of the year 2022
    Best books of 2022: Politics

    Gideon Rachman selects his must-read titles

  • Monday, 24 October, 2022
    Review
    From China to cyber space — the best new politics books

    Training a spotlight on Chinese influence are these new titles tackling economy, security and Covid lockdowns

  • Friday, 14 October, 2022
    ReviewFiction
    Kilometer 101 by Maxim Osipov — stories of Russian exile

    The writer on the savage realities of the homeland he fled at the start of the Ukraine war

    A view over the roofs of a small town with mist and autumnal trees
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