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    • Tuesday, 2 May, 2023
      ReviewHistory books
      Birchers — cabals, conspiracies and the group that paved the way for Trump

      Matthew Dallek’s fine new history looks at the 1950s conspiracy movement that radicalised America’s Republican party

    • Wednesday, 19 April, 2023
      Review
      Politics round-up — strongmen and a delicate democracy

      Vivid and engaging accounts track Putin and Xi’s misjudgments and the growing pains of Spain

    • Thursday, 30 March, 2023
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      A Stranger in Your Own City — the post-invasion agony of the Iraqi people

      A haunting account of the impact of western policies premised on sectarianism that engulfed the country after 2003

    • Wednesday, 22 March, 2023
      ReviewFT Books Essay
      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

    • Friday, 10 March, 2023
      Review
      Inside the Deal — how Brexit got done

      Stefaan De Rynck argues that Brussels took control of the process from the start

    • Friday, 3 March, 2023
      FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival
      Homelands by Timothy Garton Ash — an illuminating history of Europe

      From the ‘miracle’ of 1989 to the return of state thuggery, readers could hardly wish for a wiser guide to the continent’s triumphs and travails

    • Monday, 13 February, 2023
      Review
      Politics round-up — inside stories on turbulent times

      Observant accounts tackle Trump’s footsoldiers, Biden’s White House, Johnson’s downfall and Brussels diplomacy

    • Tuesday, 7 February, 2023
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      American Resistance by David Rothkopf — managing the Trump horror show

      How Washington sustained its institutions and saved the nation from destruction

    • 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, 17 January, 2023
      ReviewHistory books
      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
      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, 15 December, 2022
      Review
      Spies and Lies by Alex Joske — inside China’s intelligence operation

      A new book distils huge amounts of open-source information on Beijing’s Ministry of State Security

    • Friday, 9 December, 2022
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      Global Discord by Paul Tucker — holding on to values and power

      The former deputy governor of the Bank of England lays out principles for international co-operation in the face of geopolitical challenges

    • Friday, 9 December, 2022
      Non-Fiction
      A united Ireland? Perspectives on a shifting political landscape

      As unification rises up the agenda, traditional allegiances are challenged by demographic change — and the fallout from Brexit

    • Friday, 25 November, 2022
      FT SeriesBest books of the year 2022
      Best books of 2022: Politics

      Gideon Rachman selects his must-read titles

    • Monday, 24 October, 2022
      Review
      From China to cyber space — the best new politics books

      Training a spotlight on Chinese influence are these new titles tackling economy, security and Covid lockdowns

    • Friday, 14 October, 2022
      ReviewFiction
      Kilometer 101 by Maxim Osipov — stories of Russian exile

      The writer on the savage realities of the homeland he fled at the start of the Ukraine war

    • 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

    • Monday, 29 August, 2022
      Review
      Genre round-up — the best new political books

      From biographies of Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Vladimir Putin to two books that seek a new kind of politics through imaginative thinking about the future

    • Tuesday, 16 August, 2022
      Review
      The Real Special Relationship by Michael Smith — spies like us

      Eighty years of intelligence-sharing between the US and UK are judiciously chronicled in this enlightening read

    • 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
      Life & Arts
      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

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