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    • Friday, 27 January, 2023
      ReviewBooks
      The best books of the week

      When US foreign policy pulls in opposing directions; the indigenous Americans who ‘discovered’ Europe; the enforced forgetting of China’s Cultural Revolution; a dolphin expert’s take on the failings of human intelligence; the lessons of lost landscapes; an émigré in 1920s Paris; a tale of American ethnic cleansing; the plight of the Sámi — plus Pilita Clark’s round-up of environmental titles

    • Thursday, 26 January, 2023
      The best books of the week
      On Savage Shores — overturning Columbus’s ‘discovery’ narrative

      This courageous account puts the indigenous Americans who came to Europe, most as slaves, at the centre of the story

    • Thursday, 26 January, 2023
      The best books of the week
      Lessons of lost worlds

      From the English countryside to Bulgaria’s herbalists, healers and horse whisperers — two books let the landscape tell the tale of our unsustainable lives

    • Wednesday, 25 January, 2023
      The best books of the week
      Red Memory — enforced forgetting and the legacy of the Cultural Revolution

      Tania Branigan’s intimate stories of survivors capture a traumatic decade for many that still informs modern China

    • Wednesday, 25 January, 2023
      The best books of the week
      If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal — why human morality ‘kind of sucks’

      Dolphin communication expert Justin Gregg sets out his thinking about the problem with intelligence

    • Wednesday, 25 January, 2023
      The best books of the week
      How America picks its battles

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

    • Tuesday, 24 January, 2023
      The best books of the week
      Parisian Days by Banine — model citizen

      Swept along by revolutionary forces, the young émigré seeks to realise her dreams of ‘freedom and fantasy’ in 1920s France

    • Monday, 23 January, 2023
      The best books of the week
      Notable new books on climate and the environment

      From direct air carbon capture to the prospects for 100 per cent renewables — plus a sea voyage into a more sustainable future

    • Wednesday, 18 January, 2023
      Review
      Can England’s dystopian ‘lawfare’ industry be reformed?

      Geoffrey Robertson demolishes the myth that England is a longstanding bastion of free speech

    • Wednesday, 18 January, 2023
      ReviewFT Books Essay
      Non-fiction for kids: big books for little people

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

    • Tuesday, 17 January, 2023
      Review
      Butts — the changing shape of beauty standards

      Heather Radke investigates the symbolism and history of women’s backsides in her rigorously researched debut

    • Monday, 16 January, 2023
      ReviewBusiness books
      Offices from the past help us imagine the workspaces of the future

      Several books explore the reality of the workplace and how corporate spaces may blur with the home

    • Friday, 13 January, 2023
      Andrew Crofts
      Prince Harry gives ghostwriters a rare moment in the sun

      Normally our job is to be invisible and to show the same curiosity about public figures as readers will

    • Friday, 13 January, 2023
      Review
      The Rise of Corporate Feminism — Allison Elias on the injustice of the ‘office wife’

      A riveting account of how secretaries were left behind in the fight for equality in the workplace

    • Friday, 13 January, 2023
      ReviewFT Books Essay
      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, 12 January, 2023
      Review
      The Half Known Life by Pico Iyer — seeking paradise in the modern world

      The ultimate destination in this latest book by the pilgrim-cum-travel writer is more a state of being than a place

    • Wednesday, 11 January, 2023
      ReviewFiction
      Whale by Cheon Myeong-kwan — sins of the mother

      A South Korean classic about tycoons, ghosts and cinephiles that blends folklore and magical realism

    • Wednesday, 11 January, 2023
      ReviewBooks
      The Wife of Bath — a medieval everywoman’s afterlife

      Marion Turner’s biography of Chaucer’s greatest creation charts how Alison of Bath has lived on in the popular imagination

    • Monday, 9 January, 2023
      Books
      The books to read in 2023

      From historian Serhii Plokhy on the war in Ukraine to a fresh take on the Cultural Revolution and the latest by Paul Auster and Salman Rushdie, a preview of this year’s titles

    • Saturday, 7 January, 2023
      Review
      Muppets in Moscow — the making of a post-Soviet Sesame Street

      Natasha Lance Rogoff’s ‘crazy true’ tale of taking the hit television show to Russia in the 1990s

    • Friday, 6 January, 2023
      ReviewUS gun violence
      Bloodbath Nation — Paul Auster’s polemic on a gun-crazed US

      Stark images of the sites of mass shootings punctuate this passionate account of the toll wrought by firearms

    • Thursday, 5 January, 2023
      Review
      The Strange Survival of Liberal Britain — the pre-first world war age of anxiety

      Vernon Bogdanor’s vivid account of the social and political challenges of the day still resonates

    • Thursday, 5 January, 2023
      ReviewKatherine Mansfield
      All Sorts of Lives — Katherine Mansfield through her stories

      Biographer Claire Harman uses the great proto-Modernist’s fiction to illuminate her dramatic, short life

    • Wednesday, 4 January, 2023
      Nilanjana Roy
      Why a Tamil classic makes a perfect start to 2023

      A new translation does justice to the joyous treatment of love and desire in the ‘Tirukkural’

    • Friday, 30 December, 2022
      ReviewMaria Ressa
      How to Stand Up to a Dictator — Maria Ressa on the dark arts of disinformation

      The Filipina journalist shows how demagogues misuse the internet — yet insists it can be a force for good

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