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    • Monday, 27 June, 2022
      Summer Books 2022
      What books should you read this summer?

      Listen to our Twitter discussion with FT literary editor Frederick Studemann, deputy books editor Laura Battle and FT Weekend podcast host Lilah Raptopoulos

    • Friday, 24 June, 2022
      Summer Books 2022
      Best summer books of 2022: Politics

      Gideon Rachman selects his best mid-year reads

    • Monday, 20 June, 2022
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      Summer Books 2022

      From politics, economics and history to art, food and, of course, fiction — FT writers and critics choose their favourite reads of the year so far

    • Tuesday, 31 May, 2022
      ReviewFT Books Essay
      Is America heading for civil war?

      A clutch of books makes an alarmingly persuasive case that the warning lights are flashing redder than at any point since 1861

    • Friday, 13 May, 2022
      ReviewEconomics books
      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
      ReviewFT Books Essay
      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

    • Monday, 9 May, 2022
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      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

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

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

    • Monday, 2 May, 2022
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      The Avoidable War — averting a conflict between the US and China

      In his new book, former Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd urges a policy of ‘managed strategic competition’

    • Thursday, 14 April, 2022
      Review
      The Age of the Strongman — Gideon Rachman on Putin, Trump and the rise of the autocrat

      An insightful who’s who of the ego-driven leaders reshaping the postwar order — and a call for vigilance

    • Tuesday, 12 April, 2022
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      A Brief History of Equality — the newly optimistic Thomas Piketty

      The French economist’s latest book condenses the arguments of his previous tomes but is short on the practical politics of real change

    • Thursday, 7 April, 2022
      Review
      America and China — the defining relationship

      Competitive co-operation or containment? Two books set out opposing views on how the US should approach its superpower rival

    • Wednesday, 30 March, 2022
      Review
      Who Are We Now? by Jason Cowley — looking for a new England

      This series of fascinating vignettes by the New Statesman editor attempts to map the emergence of the nation today

    • Tuesday, 15 March, 2022
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      Liberalism and Its Discontents — Francis Fukuyama on fixing democracy

      The political philosopher takes on critics on both left and right to offer a to-do list for the liberal centre

    • Monday, 14 March, 2022
      ReviewGeopolitics
      Four new books about sanctions, Russia and avoiding war

      Can measures to avert conflict actually trigger it? And what would be a new cold war look like for the west?

    • Friday, 25 February, 2022
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      We Need Snowflakes — the case for the sensitive and the offended

      Hannah Jewell’s book tackles an insult emblematic of our polarised age — but can she convince the critics of ‘woke’?

    • Wednesday, 23 February, 2022
      FT Books Essay
      An Irish future — and the weight of history

      Three new books examine the violently fraught ties between England and its island neighbour and the prospects of unification

    • Tuesday, 25 January, 2022
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      Gideon Rachman selects some of the best new writing on politics

      From populism to white privilege — a round-up of books tackling urgent questions of our time

    • Thursday, 30 December, 2021
      National Archives
      Tony Blair blocked action on Macpherson report on UK race relations

      Private memos show Number 10 pushback thwarted plan by Jack Straw to launch white paper on improving race relations

    • Wednesday, 15 December, 2021
      Review
      Germany’s Russia Problem — a tricky balancing act

      Be it Ukraine or energy supply, John Lough’s book says Berlin needs to hit a new note in relations with Moscow

    • Saturday, 11 December, 2021
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      Against White Feminism by Rafia Zakaria — experience over empathy

      The American-Pakistani activist’s polemic against well-meaning western ‘woke’ women is sure to polarise opinion

    • Friday, 10 December, 2021
      ReviewHistory books
      The Ledger: Accounting for Failure in Afghanistan

      Authors David Kilcullen and Greg Mills assemble evidence and anecdotes to outline the west’s many missteps over 20 years

    • Thursday, 2 December, 2021
      ReviewHistory books
      Master of the Game — Kissinger’s perilous Middle East balancing act

      Martin Indyk’s revelatory account highlights the extraordinary geopolitical influence wielded by the former US secretary of state

    • Tuesday, 16 November, 2021
      FT SeriesBest Books of the Year 2021
      Best books of 2021: Politics

      Gideon Rachman selects his must-read titles

    • Wednesday, 10 November, 2021
      FT Books Essay
      Hong Kong’s future — the pearl and the dragon

      Three books look at the territory’s recent tussles with Beijing and offer differing levels of optimism on the outlook for freedom

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