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    • Monday, 11 September, 2023
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      The Dictionary People — a homage to the eclectic lexicographers of the OED

      Sarah Ogilvie brings to life the unexpected characters — from murderers and a vicar to Karl Marx’s daughter — who were its early contributors

      A team of people and an old man with a long, white beard sit at desks working in an office filled with books and paper
    • Friday, 1 September, 2023
      Life & Arts
      Scottish steps on the road to restitution

      The return of a sacred Nisga’a Nation artefact offers lessons for museums worldwide

    • Thursday, 3 August, 2023
      ReviewFiction
      The Future Future by Adam Thirlwell — from Hispaniola to the Moon

      The divisive novelist bends time and space in this moving, feminist tale set in a sidelong version of the 18th century

      Illustration of a woman in an old-fashioned dress and pearls with a VR headset on
    • Friday, 14 April, 2023
      Life & Arts
      After the Tupperware party

      A history of 20th-century America, in plastic storage containers

      Women in a lounge room with plastic containers
    • Tuesday, 7 March, 2023
      FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival
      The Real Work by Adam Gopnik — the mystery of mastery

      The New Yorker writer conquers his fears in a lovely book that is a fine testament to wonder

    • Friday, 3 March, 2023
      Life & Arts
      Let them eat . . . nettles? Salad versus the seasons

      A market in Bucharest offers lessons for Brits on what to eat when

    • 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

      Flag flying at half mast
    • Wednesday, 17 August, 2022
      ReviewFiction
      Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow — game for life

      The playing’s the thing in this delightful tale of a friendship formed through video games

    • Tuesday, 9 August, 2022
      ReviewBiography and memoir
      Robert Lowell’s Memoirs — vital lessons from a vanished age

      The American poet’s gathered autobiographical reflections, many written as therapy, reveal his wisdom and inspirations

      A man in glasses stands on a street, holding a cigarette
    • Wednesday, 25 May, 2022
      ReviewFiction
      The Men by Sandra Newman — a world without the Y chromosome

      An intriguing social premise — the sudden disappearance of men — descends into an unconvincing personal psychodrama

    • Friday, 25 March, 2022
      ReviewFiction
      Elizabeth Finch by Julian Barnes — notebooks on a scandal

      The story of a charismatic, compelling teacher is let down by an opaque and sketchy central character

    • Friday, 10 December, 2021
      ReviewFiction
      Our Country Friends by Gary Shteyngart — inside a pandemic bubble

      A house party in upstate New York is the setting for an empathetic account of life in lockdown

    • Thursday, 28 October, 2021
      ReviewHistory books
      The Ruin of All Witches by Malcolm Gaskill — malevolent forces

      This historical reconstruction of accusations decades before Salem reveals the era’s hysteria and the timelessness of conspiracy

      The execution of a woman accused of witchcraft in America, c1695
    • Friday, 22 October, 2021
      The Weekend Essay
      ‘Carmen Mola’ and the politics of a pseudonym

      When three men writing as a woman won the world’s richest literary prize, outrage followed. So who is allowed to write what — and should we care?

    • Thursday, 23 September, 2021
      ReviewFiction
      A Calling for Charlie Barnes by Joshua Ferris — crisis in middle-class America

      A man struggling for meaning and a livelihood in the Chicago suburbs fills a narrative on the ills of 21st century

    • Wednesday, 17 February, 2021
      ReviewFiction
      Transcendent Kingdom, by Yaa Gyasi — shattered lives

      The second novel by the Ghanaian-American writer offers a powerful perspective on addiction and race

    • Wednesday, 16 December, 2020
      ReviewFT Books Essay
      The restorative and illuminating power of reading

      Books about reading — indeed, about books themselves — are perfect for our troubled times in that they offer delight and the sense of possibility

    • Tuesday, 6 October, 2020
      ReviewFiction
      Roddy Doyle’s Love — pubs, pints and men in crisis

      Two old friends measure up their life choices on a night out in Dublin

    • Friday, 4 September, 2020
      ReviewFiction
      Jack, by Marilynne Robinson — a leap of faith

      Her timeless prose and ‘Romeo and Juliet’ story resonate with Black Lives Matter

    • Thursday, 16 April, 2020
      FT Books Essay
      The looming urgency of how we feed our population 

      Complex supply chains distance consumers from producers, making us more vulnerable

      Beekeeper Paul Webb inspects hives on the rooftop of London’s Café Spice Namasté
    • Friday, 13 March, 2020
      ReviewFiction
      A Thousand Moons by Sebastian Barry — on America’s frontier

      This post-civil war sequel to ‘Days Without End’ explores race, family and violence

    • Friday, 21 February, 2020
      ReviewFiction
      Apeirogon — a daring, humane story of reconciliation

      Colum McCann’s remarkable novel is based on a real-life Israeli-Palestinian friendship

    • Friday, 17 January, 2020
      ReviewFiction
      Red at the Bone — a rich portrait of a 20th-century American family

      Spanning 80 years, Jacqueline Woodson’s novel is set against the vexed and violent history of the US

      Photograph of an African American couple walking across a street with smoke rising in the distance after the Tulsa Race Riot, Tulsa, Oklahoma, June 1921. (Photo by Oklahoma Historical Society/Getty Images)
    • Friday, 18 October, 2019
      Book awards
      The Booker judges reflect an unhealthy disregard for the rules

      It is only a literary prize, but the decision reflects an era when instinct trumps protocol

      Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo jointly win the Booker Prize for Fiction 2019 at the Guildhall in London, Britain October 14, 2019. REUTERS/Simon Dawson
    • Friday, 4 October, 2019
      FT Books Essay
      Why we can’t get enough of haunting fiction

      Laird Hunt’s sinister new novel — along with studies of spirits in literature – shows that the ghost story is alive and kicking

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