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  • Wednesday, 18 May, 2022
    ReviewHistory books
    In the Shadow of the Gods — when emperors claimed a divine right to rule

    Dominic Lieven takes in empires from Mughal to British and asks: what made them the dominant form of government for centuries?

  • Wednesday, 18 May, 2022
    Review
    Raw Concrete — a reappraisal of architecture’s brutalist vision

    In his guide to eight UK buildings, Barnabas Calder finds beauty in a style whose negative image was cemented in the 1960s

  • Tuesday, 17 May, 2022
    ReviewBiography and memoir
    I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys — a clear-eyed portrait of a spiky contrarian

    Miranda Seymour’s sympathetic biography balances the torrid aspects of the writer’s life with insight into her literary influences

  • Tuesday, 17 May, 2022
    ReviewPoetry
    The Penguin Book of Indian Poets — a feast of literature

    Jeet Thayil’s selection of poems written in English is a dazzling collection vast in ambition and scope

  • Friday, 13 May, 2022
    ReviewBooks
    The best books of the week

    The tipping point of tyranny, the travails of the UK Treasury, a history of a divided Jerusalem, the economic rise of South Korea, new novels by Miriam Toews and Maggie Shipstead, and Tina Brown goes inside the British royal family — plus Gideon Rachman’s politics round-up

  • Friday, 13 May, 2022
    The best books of the week
    The Chancellors — is the Treasury fit for purpose?

    An economist’s primer on the UK Treasury over the past 25 years highlights how the office has struggled to change with the times

  • Friday, 13 May, 2022
    The best books of the week
    When democratic spin conceals a descent into dictatorship

    What separates autocrats from outright dictators? Two books consider the path to power, from Erdoğan’s rise in Turkey to strongmen leaders around the world

  • Tuesday, 10 May, 2022
    The best books of the week
    Shrimp to Whale by Ramon Pacheco Pardo — how South Korea became a powerhouse

    This careful retelling of two millennia of history celebrates the country’s economic and cultural success but ignores its dark sides

  • Tuesday, 10 May, 2022
    The best books of the week
    The Palace Papers by Tina Brown — monarchy and misbehaviour

    This very readable account of an institution in flux is entertaining but light on revelations

  • Monday, 9 May, 2022
    The best books of the week
    Gideon Rachman selects some of the best new writing on politics

    How China built influence in the US — and the professor who coined ‘G-Zero’ on the response to our present global crises

  • Thursday, 5 May, 2022
    Review
    Alice’s Book by Karina Urbach — the recipes stolen by the Nazis

    A moving account of the 80-year quest to restore a Jewish writer’s name to a bestselling Viennese cooking guide

  • Thursday, 5 May, 2022
    Review
    A call to arms for diverse democracies and their ‘decent middle’

    Yascha Mounk’s ‘The Great Experiment’ looks at how faltering heterogeneous societies can thrive

  • Wednesday, 4 May, 2022
    Review
    The battle for American conservatism

    Did rabid libertarianism cause the shift towards nativist populism? Two books cite different hypotheses for the fracturing of Republicanism

  • Wednesday, 4 May, 2022
    ReviewPolitical books
    Sinostan — how China moved into Russia’s backyard

    A compelling geopolitical travelogue explores Beijing’s growing influence in Central Asia

  • Tuesday, 3 May, 2022
    Review
    The Premonitions Bureau by Sam Knight — mysteries of clairvoyance

    An examination of precognitions and the fascination with them in 1960s Britain proves an entertaining study of the mind and the human quest for control

  • Friday, 29 April, 2022
    Review
    Shadowlands — a 5,000-year journey through Britain’s lost settlements

    Matthew Green’s time-trip through vanished towns and cities offers an urgent reminder of what may lie ahead

  • Thursday, 28 April, 2022
    ReviewFT Books Essay
    Atoms and Ashes — Serhii Plokhy on nuclear promise and perils

    A timely and enthralling study focuses on six cases of atomic energy disasters, including Chernobyl, Fukushima and Three Mile Island

  • Thursday, 28 April, 2022
    Review
    Enough — an impassioned plea to end violence against women

    The murder of Sarah Everard is at the core of Harriet Johnson’s book — but what can she add that feminists haven’t said for decades?

  • Thursday, 28 April, 2022
    Review
    Dead in the Water — fire, fraud and murder on the high seas

    A journalistic exposé of a maritime fraud raises compelling questions about the morality of London shipping finance

  • Tuesday, 26 April, 2022
    ReviewBiography and memoir
    Super-Infinite — the life and rhymes of John Donne

    Katherine Rundell’s remarkable biography captures the many selves of the extraordinarily gifted Elizabethan poet

  • Tuesday, 26 April, 2022
    ReviewBiography and memoir
    Circus of Dreams — bright young things and booming book sales

    John Walsh’s celebrity-strewn memoir recalls a golden age of British publishing

  • Friday, 22 April, 2022
    Review
    English Garden Eccentrics — curiouser and curiouser

    Madcap visions and miniatures fill a landscape architect’s guided tour through the stranger corners of English garden design

  • Thursday, 21 April, 2022
    Review
    The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order — an instant classic

    Gary Gerstle’s economic history is essential reading for learning how we arrived at a reckoning with capitalism

  • Thursday, 21 April, 2022
    Review
    Freezing Order — Bill Browder on the trail of dirty Russian money

    The financier-turned-activist’s thriller-like memoir has a fresh urgency in the face of Putin’s war on Ukraine

  • Wednesday, 20 April, 2022
    FT Books Essay
    Marriage in all its divine tedium

    Three works look at this most basic of social unions, the innumerable slights that tend to destroy it and the lingering appeal of the fading institution

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