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Dominic Lieven takes in empires from Mughal to British and asks: what made them the dominant form of government for centuries?
In his guide to eight UK buildings, Barnabas Calder finds beauty in a style whose negative image was cemented in the 1960s
Miranda Seymour’s sympathetic biography balances the torrid aspects of the writer’s life with insight into her literary influences
Jeet Thayil’s selection of poems written in English is a dazzling collection vast in ambition and scope
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
An economist’s primer on the UK Treasury over the past 25 years highlights how the office has struggled to change with the times
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
This careful retelling of two millennia of history celebrates the country’s economic and cultural success but ignores its dark sides
This very readable account of an institution in flux is entertaining but light on revelations
How China built influence in the US — and the professor who coined ‘G-Zero’ on the response to our present global crises
A moving account of the 80-year quest to restore a Jewish writer’s name to a bestselling Viennese cooking guide
Yascha Mounk’s ‘The Great Experiment’ looks at how faltering heterogeneous societies can thrive
Did rabid libertarianism cause the shift towards nativist populism? Two books cite different hypotheses for the fracturing of Republicanism
A compelling geopolitical travelogue explores Beijing’s growing influence in Central Asia
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
Matthew Green’s time-trip through vanished towns and cities offers an urgent reminder of what may lie ahead
A timely and enthralling study focuses on six cases of atomic energy disasters, including Chernobyl, Fukushima and Three Mile Island
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?
A journalistic exposé of a maritime fraud raises compelling questions about the morality of London shipping finance
Katherine Rundell’s remarkable biography captures the many selves of the extraordinarily gifted Elizabethan poet
John Walsh’s celebrity-strewn memoir recalls a golden age of British publishing
Madcap visions and miniatures fill a landscape architect’s guided tour through the stranger corners of English garden design
Gary Gerstle’s economic history is essential reading for learning how we arrived at a reckoning with capitalism
The financier-turned-activist’s thriller-like memoir has a fresh urgency in the face of Putin’s war on Ukraine
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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