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    • Thursday, 8 June, 2023
      ReviewHistory books
      Shadowlands of empire: central Europe’s nervous east-west gaze

      Putin’s war on Ukraine exposes not only a rift between Russia and the west, but also divisions within eastern Europe

    • Wednesday, 31 May, 2023
      The best books of the week
      How to rethink climate change

      Three books — including a novel — overturn assumptions about how politics, economics and science should combat global warming

    • Wednesday, 24 May, 2023
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      The Economic Government of the World — an end to globalisation?

      Martin Daunton’s history of trade liberalisation shows that capricious US opinion has always mattered most

    • Wednesday, 17 May, 2023
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      Triumph or tragedy? — India’s demographic dilemmas

      Three new books consider the country’s economic potential and pitfalls from different perspectives

    • Thursday, 4 May, 2023
      InterviewBooks
      Linton Kwesi Johnson: ‘We were the rebel generation’

      The Jamaican-born poet/activist on Britain’s imperialist mentality and his five-decade search for ‘this elusive thing called poetry’

    • Wednesday, 26 April, 2023
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      BuzzFeed, Gawker and the new media rivalry that went viral

      Ben Smith charts the history of online news and the trouble chasing internet traffic

    • Wednesday, 19 April, 2023
      ReviewBooks
      Alternative realities: caring for people with dementia

      With an ageing global population, cases of the disease continue to drastically rise. Two timely and insightful books offer help on how to support the millions of new patients

    • Monday, 10 April, 2023
      InterviewBooks
      Sergei Lebedev: ‘If Russia is to have any future, it will have to become another country’

      The exiled Russian author on how a career in geology led him to dig into his homeland’s hidden horrors for a new short-story collection

    • Wednesday, 5 April, 2023
      Books
      The long shadow of apartheid

      Two compelling books analyse the precarious birth of South African democracy and the continuing struggle to overcome the legacy of division

    • Tuesday, 28 March, 2023
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      Ravenous by Henry Dimbleby — hungry for change

      Frustrated at continued government inaction, the adviser and Leon co-founder serves up a comprehensive and reasoned argument for a coherent food policy

    • Wednesday, 22 March, 2023
      ReviewPolitical books
      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

    • Wednesday, 15 March, 2023
      ReviewBooks
      What is a mother’s role?

      Three informative books offering first-hand perspectives of early motherhood are a reminder that raising children should be a collective responsibility

    • Friday, 3 March, 2023
      ReviewHistory books
      A difficult reckoning with Ukraine’s wartime history

      Two new books explore aspects of Ukraine’s troubled 20th-century history

    • Thursday, 16 February, 2023
      ReviewHistory books
      The 1600s: England’s century of bloodshed and revolution

      With conflict over Ireland, Scotland and Europe, monarchy and governance, the 17th century had uneasy parallels with today

    • Thursday, 9 February, 2023
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      Death of a loved one: poignant reflections on grief

      Discomfort around dying, life after loss, sources of solace — three timely books bring fresh perspectives to bereavement

    • Thursday, 2 February, 2023
      ReviewFiction
      Salman Rushdie’s Victory City is a testimony to the power of words

      The author who was brutally attacked last year conjures up a fantasy world where India’s great religions come together

    • Wednesday, 25 January, 2023
      ReviewPolitical books
      How America picks its battles

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

    • Wednesday, 18 January, 2023
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      Non-fiction for kids: big books for little people

      . . . but getting the messaging correct is not always child’s play

    • 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

    • Thursday, 5 January, 2023
      ReviewScience books
      Can awe change the way we see the world?

      Two books encourage us to look at life afresh — via the senses and cultivating a sense of wonder in our day-to-day lives

    • Thursday, 15 December, 2022
      ReviewBooks
      Philosophy for life

      What can the age-old discipline of inquiry teach us about how we live our lives?

    • Thursday, 1 December, 2022
      FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival
      Poisoning, adultery, incest, murder and mayhem: a family history of humanity

      From Genghis Khan to Caesar, Simon Sebag Montefiore’s entertaining new take on the history of the world is told via some rather troubling relatives

    • Friday, 18 November, 2022
      ReviewBooks
      The masculinity crisis

      Three books examine the challenges — from schoolyard to workplace — faced by boys and men as they adapt to their changing status in the modern world

    • Wednesday, 9 November, 2022
      ReviewFiction
      The strange dreams of Cormac McCarthy

      Sixteen years after The Road, the arrival of two new novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris, marks a major literary event

    • Friday, 4 November, 2022
      ReviewHistory books
      The legacies of the Ottoman Empire

      A century after its demise, the effects of the end of empire are still being felt

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