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    • Friday, 26 May, 2023
      ReviewBooks
      The best books of the week

      The shifting US influence on world trade; Spain’s journey from Franco to democracy; Polly Toynbee’s memoir of privilege and progressive causes; a Westminster ‘bodice-ripper’ by an ex-aide to Boris Johnson; Germany’s tangled relationship with Russia; the rise and tragic fall of Tony Hsieh; Leïla Slimani’s new novel — plus Adam LeBor’s round-up of thrillers

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      Golden Age — confessions of an everyman

      Wang Xiaobo’s semi-autobiographical account of the final decades of the 20th century in China is both subversive and hilarious

    • Friday, 26 May, 2023
      The best books of the week
      Spain’s century: from dictatorship to modern European democracy

      Two books by leading historians do a fine job in charting the the path from fanaticism and violence to national reconciliation

    • Thursday, 25 May, 2023
      The best books of the week
      An Uneasy Inheritance — Polly Toynbee’s memoir of her family and other radicals

      The writer confronts family woes — and the difficulty of championing leftwing causes while hailing from privilege

    • Tuesday, 23 May, 2023
      The best books of the week
      Wonder Boy — the rapid rise and tragic fall of Tony Hsieh

      How the wunderkind behind shoe etailer Zappos set a goal of happiness rather than riches but ended his life in squalor and delusion

    • Monday, 22 May, 2023
      Martin Amis
      The acid wit and magnificent prose of Martin Amis

      A comic prodigy who relished vulgarity and made low-life subject matter a speciality, he was always a literary critic at heart

    • Monday, 22 May, 2023
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      Germany’s tangled relationship with Russia

      The ‘Moskau Connection’ recounts Gerhard Schröder and other politicians’ all-too-trusting approach to Putin

    • Sunday, 21 May, 2023
      ObituaryMartin Amis
      Martin Amis, writer, 1949-2023

      The British novelist whose swagger and love of literary pyrotechnics produced dazzling, sardonic prose

    • Saturday, 20 May, 2023
      Martin Amis
      British author Martin Amis dies aged 73

      Writer dubbed ‘the erstwhile Mick Jagger of British letters’ was drawn to the underbelly of society

    • Friday, 19 May, 2023
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      The Exceptions — sexism under the microscope

      The story of the fight for equality at MIT in the 1990s is a reminder of the stubborn persistence of gender bias

    • Friday, 19 May, 2023
      ReviewScience books
      Ultra-Processed People by Chris van Tulleken — how our food turned to junk

      The podcaster and presenter breaks down the complex issue of additives with clarity and sensitivity but without moralising

    • Thursday, 18 May, 2023
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      Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World — a surprisingly engrossing book

      Henry Grabar convincingly makes a case for how parking has had a destructive impact on housing, urban life and design

    • Thursday, 18 May, 2023
      ReviewBiography and memoir
      Winnie & Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage — the tribulations of the Mandelas

      Jonny Steinberg’s outstanding biography balances sympathy with unflinching accounts of the discord that plagued South Africa’s power couple

    • Wednesday, 17 May, 2023
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      Wonders and Rarities — encyclopedia of cosmic marvels

      Travis Zadeh’s account of the 13th-century Arabic text takes readers on an enchanting journey into the angels and demons of pre-scientific times

    • Wednesday, 17 May, 2023
      ReviewFT Books Essay
      Triumph or tragedy? — India’s demographic dilemmas

      Three new books consider the country’s economic potential and pitfalls from different perspectives

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      Fans and fandom — the wonderfully weird ways we define ourselves

      In an online world, the role of our hobbies and obsessions has gained new urgency

    • Monday, 15 May, 2023
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      The best new books on climate and the environment

      A fresh look at the scale of the nature crisis, and how it might be halted

    • Friday, 12 May, 2023
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      The cookbooks that feed the soul

      Never mind online recipes — I buy food books for their storytelling and culinary lore

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      ReviewTravel books
      Steeple Chasing by Peter Ross — tales of a church-crawler

      A variety of eccentrics illuminate this tour of Britain’s religious sites

    • Friday, 12 May, 2023
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      Knowing What We Know — one mind’s account of how we store information

      Simon Winchester takes a lively, digressive look at how humans have ordered and passed on knowledge over time

    • Thursday, 11 May, 2023
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      Bohemians and the art of doing nothing

      Two books that lay bare the loneliness and reality of living an unconventional lifestyle

    • Thursday, 11 May, 2023
      ReviewHistory books
      The Russo-Ukrainian War — turning points

      Serhii Plokhy offers a compelling rejoinder to those who blame Putin’s war on western provocations

    • Thursday, 11 May, 2023
      Review
      Palo Alto — the California enclave where it all went wrong?

      Malcolm Harris’s history takes a passionate swipe at Silicon Valley’s hyper-capitalism

    • Saturday, 6 May, 2023
      Review
      Johnson at 10: The Inside Story — Brexit and buffoonery

      Aides close to the former prime minister have contributed to a damning account of his ill-suitedness for leadership

    • Thursday, 4 May, 2023
      ReviewBusiness books
      FT business books: what to read this month

      How to innovate without displacing industries and ways to supercharge your work life

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