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    • Wednesday, 22 March, 2023
      ReviewPolitical books
      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

    • Wednesday, 15 March, 2023
      The best books of the week
      What is a mother’s role?

      Three informative books offering first-hand perspectives of early motherhood are a reminder that raising children should be a collective responsibility

    • Friday, 3 March, 2023
      ReviewHistory books
      A difficult reckoning with Ukraine’s wartime history

      Two new books explore aspects of Ukraine’s troubled 20th-century history

    • Thursday, 16 February, 2023
      ReviewHistory books
      The 1600s: England’s century of bloodshed and revolution

      With conflict over Ireland, Scotland and Europe, monarchy and governance, the 17th century had uneasy parallels with today

    • Thursday, 9 February, 2023
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      Death of a loved one: poignant reflections on grief

      Discomfort around dying, life after loss, sources of solace — three timely books bring fresh perspectives to bereavement

    • Thursday, 2 February, 2023
      ReviewFiction
      Salman Rushdie’s Victory City is a testimony to the power of words

      The author who was brutally attacked last year conjures up a fantasy world where India’s great religions come together

    • Wednesday, 25 January, 2023
      ReviewPolitical books
      How America picks its battles

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

    • Wednesday, 18 January, 2023
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      Non-fiction for kids: big books for little people

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

    • 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

    • Thursday, 5 January, 2023
      ReviewScience books
      Can awe change the way we see the world?

      Two books encourage us to look at life afresh — via the senses and cultivating a sense of wonder in our day-to-day lives

    • Thursday, 15 December, 2022
      ReviewBooks
      Philosophy for life

      What can the age-old discipline of inquiry teach us about how we live our lives?

    • Thursday, 1 December, 2022
      FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival
      Poisoning, adultery, incest, murder and mayhem: a family history of humanity

      From Genghis Khan to Caesar, Simon Sebag Montefiore’s entertaining new take on the history of the world is told via some rather troubling relatives

    • Friday, 18 November, 2022
      ReviewBooks
      The masculinity crisis

      Three books examine the challenges — from schoolyard to workplace — faced by boys and men as they adapt to their changing status in the modern world

    • Wednesday, 9 November, 2022
      ReviewFiction
      The strange dreams of Cormac McCarthy

      Sixteen years after The Road, the arrival of two new novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris, marks a major literary event

    • Friday, 4 November, 2022
      ReviewHistory books
      The legacies of the Ottoman Empire

      A century after its demise, the effects of the end of empire are still being felt

    • Thursday, 27 October, 2022
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      US universities and their role in a country at war with itself

      America’s higher education leads the world — yet at home it feeds social inequality and economic stress. Can it be fixed?

    • Wednesday, 19 October, 2022
      ReviewBooks
      Why should we care about TS Eliot’s The Waste Land?

      Two books — by Matthew Hollis and Robert Crawford — mark the centenary of a landmark in literature, one of the most admired and imitated poems ever written

    • Wednesday, 12 October, 2022
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      Megathreats by Nouriel Roubini — an avalanche of coming disasters

      The economist who predicted the 2008 crash warns of disturbingly plausible calamities, from climate to currency and debt crises

    • Tuesday, 4 October, 2022
      Non-Fiction
      Hybrid warriors and the war in Ukraine

      Two new books — by Anna Arutunyan and Samir Puri — do a fine job of placing the hostility in its larger historical, geopolitical and social contexts

    • Tuesday, 27 September, 2022
      History books
      Slouching Towards Utopia by J Bradford DeLong — fuelling America’s global dream

      An economic history of the last century recalls a period that improved and redefined the lives of billions — yet also enabled war and environmental destruction

    • Thursday, 22 September, 2022
      Non-Fiction
      An Intimate History of Evolution — the Huxleys on humans

      Alison Bashford explores the ideas of two generations of a scientific dynasty

    • Friday, 16 September, 2022
      Books
      Do ‘great men’ shape the course of world history?

      Ian Kershaw’s essays explore whether 20th-century leaders seized power through sheer force of personality or were mere opportunists

    • Thursday, 1 September, 2022
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      Goethe and the giants of German Romanticism

      Two new books celebrate a group of towering intellects who helped shape today’s views of self and freedom

    • Wednesday, 24 August, 2022
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      What kind of great power will India become?

      Three books offer insights into New Delhi’s relationship with the US and China — and ask where the rising nation will go from here

    • Wednesday, 17 August, 2022
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      A Pipeline Runs Through It — the golden age of oil

      Rich in detail and deeply researched, Keith Fisher’s history covers oil from Mesopotamia to the first world war

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