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    • Thursday, 23 November, 2023
      The best books of the week
      How to embrace misfires, setbacks and flops

      Two books on sensible risk-taking urge innovators to learn from ‘intelligent failures’

    • Saturday, 11 November, 2023
      Books
      Hot stuff: why readers fell in love with romance novels

      Romance is now the top-selling genre in fiction. How did we become so infatuated?

      Two young couples intertwined
    • Wednesday, 25 October, 2023
      Non-Fiction
      Are we right to fear China?

      Despite dire warnings about autocracy and human rights, expert voices urge greater understanding of this ever more powerful player

      A small figure in silhouette walks past a large portrait of Xi Jinping waving. The portrait is flanked by other photographs of the Chinese president meeting the people
    • Thursday, 12 October, 2023
      ReviewBooks
      Spy masters — the hidden lives of Ian Fleming and John le Carré

      Two works turn the tables on our assumptions about the giants of British espionage fiction

    • Thursday, 28 September, 2023
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      Return of the Caesars: the making of emperors and dictators

      Autocracy is something today’s democracies thought they had left behind, but two books — one focused on antiquity, the other on modern history — shed light on how it is enabled

      A statue of Julius Caesar in Naples looks out to sea towards a couple of container ships
    • Wednesday, 20 September, 2023
      ReviewHistory books
      Germany’s chaotic year: 1923 and the lessons for today

      Crisis bred crisis in the Weimar Republic. On the centenary of the turbulent period, two books offer a reminder of the vigilance required to sustain democracy

    • Thursday, 14 September, 2023
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      AI and the next great tech shift

      From technology containment to political power and digital regulation, three books about the artificial intelligence revolution

    • Friday, 8 September, 2023
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      Oh, Vienna: what Austria’s turmoil means for the west

      Two books look at the capital’s outsized influence on western liberalism and the nation’s loudening drumbeat of far-right politics

    • Wednesday, 30 August, 2023
      ReviewScience books
      Space odysseys — trips to discover the cosmos

      Three books explore the future of galactic travel and the sights and experiences that await

      A mass of clouds and starts in the sky
    • Wednesday, 23 August, 2023
      ReviewHistory books
      The delusions that put Putin on the path to war

      In two piercing accounts, Sergei Medvedev and Jade McGlynn expose the manipulation of history used to justify Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

      Vladimir Putin appears on a big screen, flanked by veterans in military uniform, to address a parade of soldiers on Moscow’s Red Square in 2021
    • Wednesday, 16 August, 2023
      ReviewBooks
      A mind-infecting virus: the dark dreams of QAnon

      Three books look at how outlandish conspiracy theories have laid the groundwork for authoritarianism in America

    • Friday, 11 August, 2023
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      Shadows at Noon — Joya Chatterji exposes the beating heart of south Asia

      A fast-paced history blends the writer’s own experiences with an examination of the region’s political and cultural contradictions and commonalities

    • Wednesday, 2 August, 2023
      ReviewBiography and memoir
      Two sides of George Orwell

      Contrasting perspectives on the author — and the invisible life of his first wife

    • Thursday, 27 July, 2023
      ReviewHistory books
      What makes empires rise and fall?

      From Ancient Rome to China’s Huawei, two new titles look to history as a guide for the geopolitical shape of things to come

      Three columns of an ancient Roman temple stand against a sunny blue sky
    • Thursday, 20 July, 2023
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      Are we forgetting how to read?

      From stone tablet to Kindle, two surveys of the history of the book probe what comes next, in the era of e-readers and text-guzzling AI

      In a painting dating from the 1830s, a bearded man in purple sits in a dark room arranging blocks of print in the light from a window
    • Wednesday, 12 July, 2023
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      The search for a new language about race

      From white supremacism to census ethnicity questions, a clutch of new books enters the debate over racial identity

      A black-and-white photograph dated 1954 of a black Jamaican man in a smart white suit being checked by white customs officials in England. Behind him stands a woman in a smart suit
    • Wednesday, 5 July, 2023
      ReviewBooks
      Consider every drop — manifestos for saving rivers, lakes and oceans

      Three new books help recalibrate our relationship to the water that sustains us

    • Friday, 30 June, 2023
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      What is the life expectancy of the NHS?

      As Britain’s National Health Service marks its 75th birthday — amid doctors’ strikes and record waiting lists — two books trace its foundation, survival and future prognosis

      Nurses wheel a patient into the hospital
    • Wednesday, 14 June, 2023
      ReviewBooks
      How migratory birds teach us to be better stewards of the Earth

      Three books on birds and their biannual odysseys encourage deeper thought on our relationship to the planet as a whole

      A small black bird in a field
    • Thursday, 8 June, 2023
      ReviewHistory books
      Shadowlands of empire: central Europe’s nervous east-west gaze

      Putin’s war on Ukraine exposes not only a rift between Russia and the west, but also divisions within eastern Europe

      A long line of vehicles and people on a road, heading towards the sunset
    • Wednesday, 31 May, 2023
      ReviewBooks
      How to rethink climate change

      Three books — including a novel — overturn assumptions about how politics, economics and science should combat global warming

      Wind turbines in the sea, seen from a boat on a misty day
    • Wednesday, 24 May, 2023
      ReviewEconomics books
      The Economic Government of the World — an end to globalisation?

      Martin Daunton’s history of trade liberalisation shows that capricious US opinion has always mattered most

      Cranes and containers line a stretch of waterfront
    • Wednesday, 17 May, 2023
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      Triumph or tragedy? — India’s demographic dilemmas

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

    • Thursday, 4 May, 2023
      InterviewBooks
      Linton Kwesi Johnson: ‘We were the rebel generation’

      The Jamaican-born poet/activist on Britain’s imperialist mentality and his five-decade search for ‘this elusive thing called poetry’

    • Wednesday, 26 April, 2023
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      BuzzFeed, Gawker and the new media rivalry that went viral

      Ben Smith charts the history of online news and the trouble chasing internet traffic

      A man and woman in an office
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