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Robots are not as clever as billed, but they could be. Three new books argue that the challenge is making these powerful new technologies work for us
Blake Scott Ball makes a good case for how Charles M Schulz’s creation left a lasting moral mark on the USA
A ‘cosy catastrophe’ hits home in Susannah Wise’s debut This Fragile Earth and a different kind of global disaster strikes in Benjamin Percy’s The Ninth Metal
A magisterial history of the country’s drug trade shows the disastrous consequences of a century of prohibition
Martin Wolf on Philippe Aghion and collaborators’ defence of capitalism and the need for regulation and a social safety net
Could the pandemic be the push humanity needs to create a fairer world?
A memoir inspired by loss that traverses family life, tuberculosis, art and the stories we tell about ourselves
The author of ‘At Night All Blood is Black’ gives voice to the first world war’s forgotten Senegalese soldiers
Why artificial intelligence isn’t that smart, the ‘creative destruction’ of capitalism, Covid as a catalyst for change, Mexico’s descent into organised crime, the malaise of Macron’s France, novels by Lionel Shriver and Arifa Akbar — plus Barry Forshaw’s round-up of crime fiction
The comic notes of Natsuko Imamura’s first book to appear in English belie an undertow of pathos and isolation
A riotous account of a couple’s late-life planning marks a provocative break from mainstream liberal sensibilities
In these connected short stories, Taylor’s follow-up to the Booker-shortlisted ‘Real Life’ focuses on the beast within us all
In an extract from his new book, Stephen Bayley explores the “age of combustion” in film and fiction
Q&A with the author on her search for a bike, Honeycrisp apples and non-performative politics
Early motherhood left the Startup Wife writer feeling alienated from her kitchen. Lockdown was a chance to blend back in
The bestselling Maltese-born physician coined the phrase ‘lateral thinking’
The debate around the origins of coronavirus highlights how politicised ‘truth’ can be
How hubris can destroy effective leadership and the new world of work — here are this month’s top titles
Plus an ex-banker in trouble, Icelandic chills, a passenger’s dilemma, dangerous secrets, Gothic sleuths and more
Economist Brigitte Granville outlines the country’s dysfunction and seeks to scrap the single currency
The wide-ranging and often prophetic writings of The Doors’ frontman are celebrated in a new anthology
Two books delve into the enigmatic sound-worlds of Nick Cave and The Fall — and ask: how did they do it?
Two books give unsettling accounts of the epoch as financial speculation, the rage of fashion, and a seething property market vied with civil war and a deadly plague
Salman Rushdie’s latest collection reminds us of the importance of shared stories in a seemingly more fractured world
The ‘Three Women’ author moves to fiction, bringing her keen eye for detail and ability to tell a propulsive story
From furniture designer Ini Archibong to future fabrics, via department stores and Covid-era design
James Daunt rescued UK chain Waterstones but now faces his toughest task: tempting Americans back into Barnes & Noble
Duncan Campbell-Smith’s authorised account is excellent, but focuses more on the bank’s colourful past than recent corporate failings
This exploration of the meat industry and more gives plenty to chew over for those considering a vegan lifestyle
This engaging biography of mathematician Kurt Gödel shines a clear light on his brilliance, obsession and instability
Soundscapes and vocal talent bring another dimension to works by Valeria Luiselli, Sam Byers, Ethan Hawke and Lisa McInerney
This shimmering, self-conscious work reveals the mysteries and betrayals of adolescence through a teen girl gang’s misadventures
New table provides a different measure to citations in academic journals
By focusing on characters, this is a clear-eyed and lively account of how a post-Roman wasteland became a nation
Selected writings by the great director, during his youth as a journalist in Weimar Berlin, capture the joyous time and hint at an illustrious future
A history of the culture and politics around the cold war
This retelling of a real 17th-century German witch trial offers wit and dry humour among its meticulous research
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