FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival

From the politics of food and the origin of time to the war on Ukraine and the realities of crime fiction — this year’s FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival offers hundreds of stimulating and thought-provoking events, staged in distinctive Oxford settings. The 26th edition of the Festival, which runs from March 25 to April 2, also includes a vibrant programme for young people and children. For details and tickets go to oxfordliteraryfestival.org

What not to miss at the FTW Oxford Literary Festival
Want to know more about the concerns shaping the world? Our talks and Q&As with leading writers, thinkers and activists have it covered
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
Isabel Wilkerson: ‘We have 20 years to figure out what the US stands for’
The author of a seminal work on caste in the US talks about America’s uncertain future and her ‘narrative drive’
The very Christian roots of Oxford radicalism
The paradox of secularism and the contemporary value of progress is that the origins of both lie in the seedbed of a religious past
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
The Russia Conundrum by Mikhail Khodorkovsky — a manifesto for a post-Putin nation
The exile who fell foul of Putin tells the story of his own rise and fall alongside the president’s takeover of state power

FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival

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