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    • 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

    • 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
      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
      The New Life by Tom Crewe — mind-body complex

      An intense and precise novel that explores the changing sexual mores of Victorian society through the eyes of two ethical pioneers

    • Tuesday, 17 January, 2023
      Review
      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

    • Friday, 13 January, 2023
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      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

    • Wednesday, 14 December, 2022
      ReviewArts books
      The Artist’s Studio — of shivering nudes and cultural pilgrimage

      James Hall reveals some surprises in his diverting history of these ‘crucibles of creativity’

    • Thursday, 1 December, 2022
      ReviewFT Books Essay
      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

    • Thursday, 24 November, 2022
      FT SeriesBest books of the year 2022
      Best books of 2022: History

      Tony Barber selects his must-read titles

    • Tuesday, 22 November, 2022
      Special ReportFT Wealth: December 2022
      Book review: ‘Crassus’ by Peter Stothard

      Power, ambition and failure in the story of the ‘first tycoon’, ancient Rome’s richest man

    • Friday, 4 November, 2022
      ReviewFT Books Essay
      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
      Review
      Mussolini remembered: benign perceptions of the fascist leader have helped Italy’s far right

      Two timely books — by Paul Corner and John Foot — argue convincingly that the nation exonerated itself over crimes carried out under the Duce

    • Wednesday, 26 October, 2022
      Review
      Iron and Blood — 500 years of warfare in German-speaking Europe

      Peter H Wilson’s astute military history challenges traditional narratives — and has a fresh urgency as Russia wages war in Ukraine

    • Tuesday, 25 October, 2022
      ReviewBiography and memoir
      The Posthumous Papers of the Manuscripts Club — knowledge and power

      Christopher de Hamel brings different worlds to life through the keepers of medieval manuscripts

    • Friday, 21 October, 2022
      Review
      Christendom — how a true believers sect conquered a continent

      Peter Heather’s engaging survey of the religion reassesses its rise, from the ruins of the Roman empire to the shaping of modern Europe

    • Thursday, 20 October, 2022
      ReviewEconomics books
      Free Market — the boundary between state and the economy

      A timely and erudite history traces our ambiguous attitudes towards moneymaking and laissez faire trade

    • Wednesday, 12 October, 2022
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      Command by Lawrence Freedman — the politics of the battlefield

      A compelling study of leadership during conflict should be required reading for those who send soldiers to war

    • Thursday, 6 October, 2022
      ReviewBiography and memoir
      Dandelions by Thea Lenarduzzi — family roots

      A timely memoir that shines light on the global roots of nationalism by tracing four generations of migration between Italy and England

    • Wednesday, 5 October, 2022
      ReviewBiography and memoir
      Endless Flight — a long overdue biography of Joseph Roth in English

      Keiron Pim’s rigorous research puts the life of the itinerant writer in the context of war, upheaval and the end of empire

    • Thursday, 29 September, 2022
      Review
      The Story of Russia by Orlando Figes — the past that shapes Putin’s rule

      The historian digs deep into the country’s mythologies to put its president’s worldview in perspective

    • Thursday, 29 September, 2022
      ReviewBiography and memoir
      Morgenthau by Andrew Meier — power, privilege and the making of modern America

      An epic account of a New York dynasty and its rise to political influence

    • Tuesday, 27 September, 2022
      Review
      Lost Realms: Histories of Britain from the Romans to the Vikings — the rise and fall of kingdoms

      Belying the gloom of traditional narratives of the early-Medieval age, many communities lived peaceful, cosmopolitan lives

    • Tuesday, 27 September, 2022
      FT Books Essay
      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

    • Wednesday, 21 September, 2022
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      China After Mao by Frank Dikötter — the grand deception

      A detailed unpicking of the illusion China’s rulers perpetuate that the country’s economic growth has been driven by reform

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