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    • Thursday, 28 September, 2023
      ReviewFT Books Essay
      Return of the Caesars: the making of emperors and dictators

      Autocracy is something today’s democracies thought they had left behind, but two books — one focused on antiquity, the other on modern history — shed light on how it is enabled

      A statue of Julius Caesar in Naples looks out to sea towards a couple of container ships
    • Thursday, 21 September, 2023
      The best books of the week
      The Abuse of Power — Theresa May points the finger of blame

      Unreflective of her own failings, the former PM is big on public duty but weak on solutions

      A woman in blue walks towards a podium
    • Monday, 11 September, 2023
      Review
      Inside the corridors of power — the best new politics books

      Rory Stewart produces a genuine political classic, liberalism comes under attack — and a reminder of the values being fought over in Ukraine

      Montage of book covers
    • Friday, 8 September, 2023
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      Spies — Russia, China and the long intelligence war with the west

      Calder Walton’s engrossing history of a century of rival spookery offers lessons for the present

      A man in a suit arrives at a court building. Behind him a man wearing a hat holds a box of objects and papers
    • Thursday, 24 August, 2023
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      The Loom of Time — Robert D Kaplan on the reshaping of the Middle East

      A lively and provocative new study explores the powerful forces influencing the region in a disorderly, multipolar world

      A group of six sultans and emirs sit in a line on throne-like chairs
    • Friday, 14 July, 2023
      Review
      No Trade Is Free — Robert Lighthizer’s lessons from Trump’s tariff war with China

      The former US trade representative on how America must produce as well as consume — and win friends in the global economy

      Two men in suits and ties stand side by side, smiling
    • Friday, 7 July, 2023
      Review
      Regime Change — a conservative battle cry

      Patrick Deneen’s critique of liberalism raises serious issues — but at times veers close to advocating a US theocracy

      A pair of children, one of them carrying a placard that reads ‘Leave us alone’, march along with anti-LGBTQ protesters during a demo in Glendale, California, in June 2023
    • Thursday, 22 June, 2023
      Summer Books 2023
      Best summer books of 2023: Politics

      Gideon Rachman selects his best mid-year reads

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    • Tuesday, 2 May, 2023
      ReviewHistory books
      Birchers — cabals, conspiracies and the group that paved the way for Trump

      Matthew Dallek’s fine new history looks at the 1950s conspiracy movement that radicalised America’s Republican party

      A billboard with the words ‘Have You Had Enough Co-Existence with Evil? . . . Join the John Birch Society’
    • Wednesday, 19 April, 2023
      Review
      Politics round-up — strongmen and a delicate democracy

      Vivid and engaging accounts track Putin and Xi’s misjudgments and the growing pains of Spain

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    • Thursday, 30 March, 2023
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      A Stranger in Your Own City — the post-invasion agony of the Iraqi people

      A haunting account of the impact of western policies premised on sectarianism that engulfed the country after 2003

    • Wednesday, 22 March, 2023
      ReviewFT Books Essay
      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

      Man near a front door
    • Friday, 10 March, 2023
      Review
      Inside the Deal — how Brexit got done

      Stefaan De Rynck argues that Brussels took control of the process from the start

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    • Friday, 3 March, 2023
      FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival
      Homelands by Timothy Garton Ash — an illuminating history of Europe

      From the ‘miracle’ of 1989 to the return of state thuggery, readers could hardly wish for a wiser guide to the continent’s triumphs and travails

    • Monday, 13 February, 2023
      Review
      Politics round-up — inside stories on turbulent times

      Observant accounts tackle Trump’s footsoldiers, Biden’s White House, Johnson’s downfall and Brussels diplomacy

      Front cover of (from left): ‘The Fight of His Life’, ‘Weapons of Mass Delusion’ and ‘And Then What?’
    • Tuesday, 7 February, 2023
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      American Resistance by David Rothkopf — managing the Trump horror show

      How Washington sustained its institutions and saved the nation from destruction

    • Wednesday, 25 January, 2023
      ReviewFT Books Essay
      How America picks its battles

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

    • Tuesday, 17 January, 2023
      ReviewHistory books
      The long shadow of Iraq and its lessons today

      Melvyn Leffler’s new history of the war against Saddam reveals how guilt, fear and hubris led to a fateful military intervention

      A US marine carries a torn-down poster of Saddam Hussein in the suburbs of south-east Baghdad in 2003
    • 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

      A Jewish man stands against a wall
    • Thursday, 15 December, 2022
      Review
      Spies and Lies by Alex Joske — inside China’s intelligence operation

      A new book distils huge amounts of open-source information on Beijing’s Ministry of State Security

      Man in red coat on stage with children
    • Friday, 9 December, 2022
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      Global Discord by Paul Tucker — holding on to values and power

      The former deputy governor of the Bank of England lays out principles for international co-operation in the face of geopolitical challenges

    • Friday, 9 December, 2022
      Non-Fiction
      A united Ireland? Perspectives on a shifting political landscape

      As unification rises up the agenda, traditional allegiances are challenged by demographic change — and the fallout from Brexit

    • Friday, 25 November, 2022
      FT SeriesBest books of the year 2022
      Best books of 2022: Politics

      Gideon Rachman selects his must-read titles

    • Monday, 24 October, 2022
      Review
      From China to cyber space — the best new politics books

      Training a spotlight on Chinese influence are these new titles tackling economy, security and Covid lockdowns

    • Friday, 14 October, 2022
      ReviewFiction
      Kilometer 101 by Maxim Osipov — stories of Russian exile

      The writer on the savage realities of the homeland he fled at the start of the Ukraine war

      A view over the roofs of a small town with mist and autumnal trees
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