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    • Friday, 3 February, 2023
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      The best books of the week

      Salman Rushdie’s ‘gift of alchemy’ in new novel ‘Victory City’; big business vs big government in America; museums and the ownership of history; Aleksandar Hemon’s ambitious new epic; Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀’s state-of-Nigeria novel; how to help England’s north; the life of Dick Whittington; terror in rural France — plus Adam LeBor’s round-up of new thrillers

    • Friday, 3 February, 2023
      The best books of the week
      The Museum of Other People — who owns history?

      Adam Kuper takes a provocative look at questions of ethnography, ownership and restitution

    • Thursday, 2 February, 2023
      The best books of the week
      The North Will Rise Again by Alex Niven — phoenix rising

      A bold, compelling attempt to imagine a new future for England’s industrial north by looking at its cultural and progressive past

    • Thursday, 2 February, 2023
      The best books of the week
      Still Pictures — Janet Malcolm turns the lens on herself

      A sort-of memoir by the pioneering journalist who died in 2021 evades a traditional narrative

    • Tuesday, 31 January, 2023
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      Who’s the real villain when executives stray into political terrain?

      The Big Myth shines a harsh light on democratic capitalism and the role of corporate America in redefining government

    • Thursday, 26 January, 2023
      ReviewHistory books
      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

    • Thursday, 26 January, 2023
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      Lessons of lost worlds

      From the English countryside to Bulgaria’s herbalists, healers and horse whisperers — two books let the landscape tell the tale of our unsustainable lives

    • Wednesday, 25 January, 2023
      ReviewHistory books
      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
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      If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal — why human morality ‘kind of sucks’

      Dolphin communication expert Justin Gregg sets out his thinking about the problem with intelligence

    • 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, 24 January, 2023
      ReviewHistory books
      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
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      Notable new books on climate and the environment

      From direct air carbon capture to the prospects for 100 per cent renewables — plus a sea voyage into a more sustainable future

    • Wednesday, 18 January, 2023
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      Can England’s dystopian ‘lawfare’ industry be reformed?

      Geoffrey Robertson demolishes the myth that England is a longstanding bastion of free speech

    • Wednesday, 18 January, 2023
      ReviewFT Books Essay
      Non-fiction for kids: big books for little people

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

    • Tuesday, 17 January, 2023
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      Butts — the changing shape of beauty standards

      Heather Radke investigates the symbolism and history of women’s backsides in her rigorously researched debut

    • Monday, 16 January, 2023
      ReviewBusiness books
      Offices from the past help us imagine the workspaces of the future

      Several books explore the reality of the workplace and how corporate spaces may blur with the home

    • Friday, 13 January, 2023
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      Prince Harry gives ghostwriters a rare moment in the sun

      Normally our job is to be invisible and to show the same curiosity about public figures as readers will

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      Review
      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

    • Friday, 13 January, 2023
      ReviewFT Books Essay
      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, 12 January, 2023
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      The Half Known Life by Pico Iyer — seeking paradise in the modern world

      The ultimate destination in this latest book by the pilgrim-cum-travel writer is more a state of being than a place

    • Wednesday, 11 January, 2023
      ReviewFiction
      Whale by Cheon Myeong-kwan — sins of the mother

      A South Korean classic about tycoons, ghosts and cinephiles that blends folklore and magical realism

    • Wednesday, 11 January, 2023
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      The Wife of Bath — a medieval everywoman’s afterlife

      Marion Turner’s biography of Chaucer’s greatest creation charts how Alison of Bath has lived on in the popular imagination

    • Monday, 9 January, 2023
      Books
      The books to read in 2023

      From historian Serhii Plokhy on the war in Ukraine to a fresh take on the Cultural Revolution and the latest by Paul Auster and Salman Rushdie, a preview of this year’s titles

    • Saturday, 7 January, 2023
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      Muppets in Moscow — the making of a post-Soviet Sesame Street

      Natasha Lance Rogoff’s ‘crazy true’ tale of taking the hit television show to Russia in the 1990s

    • Friday, 6 January, 2023
      ReviewUS gun violence
      Bloodbath Nation — Paul Auster’s polemic on a gun-crazed US

      Stark images of the sites of mass shootings punctuate this passionate account of the toll wrought by firearms

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