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  • Thursday, 14 January, 2021
    The best books of the week
    Time to save the internet

    After lurching from naive optimism to despairing dystopianism, is the internet now entering a ‘third stage’ of civic minded realism?

  • Thursday, 17 December, 2020
    Books
    Simon Schama on what makes John le Carré a writer of substance

    The spy fiction master ventured well beyond the shadows of espionage to become one of the most perceptive and enduring writers of his age

  • Wednesday, 16 December, 2020
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    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

  • Wednesday, 9 December, 2020
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Life after Covid-19: What are we going to do now?

    The Pope, Ivan Krastev and Fareed Zakaria on processing the pandemic

  • Thursday, 3 December, 2020
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Universities challenged: critical theory and culture wars

    Two books consider the influence French thinkers have had on scholarship, politics and campus culture in the English-speaking world

  • Wednesday, 11 November, 2020
    Non-Fiction
    Out of the shadows: Britain’s spy agencies in the modern world

    Two books look at the hard graft of gathering intelligence and our enduring fascination with spookery

  • Thursday, 29 October, 2020
    ReviewHistory books
    Is it time to strike back at empire?

    As Black Lives Matter confronts colonialism, historians are reassessing older, more benign accounts of imperial rule

  • Tuesday, 20 October, 2020
    Non-Fiction
    What will Xi’s China do next?

    Three books shed light on the historical forces driving Beijing’s mission for superpower status — and what it means for Asia and beyond

  • Tuesday, 13 October, 2020
    Non-Fiction
    Visions of Mohammed bin Salman — the reality and the fantasy

    The prince came to power with the bold promise of transforming Saudi Arabia. Two fine books examine MBS’s breathtaking gamble

  • Promoted Content
  • Wednesday, 7 October, 2020
    Non-Fiction
    What does work mean to us?

    Two new books from Noreena Hertz and James Suzman examine our changing relationship with what has always been more than just a job

  • Tuesday, 29 September, 2020
    Non-Fiction
    The enduring attraction of cities

    The pandemic once again has us questioning the wisdom of urban living. But four new books help explain its appeal

  • Friday, 25 September, 2020
    Biography and memoir
    Beethoven: the real-life artist and the Romantic myth

    Two biographies look beyond the composer’s reputation as a tragic genius to explore a story of patrons, lovers, hard work and luck

  • Thursday, 17 September, 2020
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    The ominous power of big data and predictive analysis

    A new book examines the long US history of harnessing technology to predict behaviour and win ‘hearts and minds’

  • Thursday, 3 September, 2020
    ReviewBooks
    Why meritocracy isn’t working

    As profession-based privilege supplants hereditary privilege, three new books champion essential blue-collar skills

  • Thursday, 27 August, 2020
    Non-Fiction
    Contested future: What next for the west?

    Globalisation has, for many, undercut wages and jobs — and fuelled populism. Can three new books unpick an issue that so divides us? 

  • Thursday, 20 August, 2020
    Fiction
    ‘Summer’ concludes Ali Smith’s fine quartet

    The final season in the series completes this affecting chronicle of our uneasy times

  • Wednesday, 12 August, 2020
    Non-Fiction
    Innovation and the real game changers

    Three books offer different answers to why innovation is so maddeningly difficult to achieve

  • Tuesday, 21 July, 2020
    Political books
    Alarm signals of our authoritarian age

    Martin Wolf reviews two important new books on Trump, strongmen leaders and the most disturbing political development of our times

  • Saturday, 18 July, 2020
    Science books
    Covid-19: what went wrong — and how to halt the next pandemic

    As calls for inquiries intensify, three leading science writers set the tone of the debate

  • Wednesday, 8 July, 2020
    History books
    New light on the dark interwar years

    Revolution and hope were followed by depression and dictatorship — but today’s wave of nationalist populism is not necessarily a rerun of those times

  • Friday, 3 July, 2020
    Books
    Why feminist battles are still being fought

    Decades on, full female equality is still elusive — so what should women be doing about it?

  • Thursday, 18 June, 2020
    ReviewEconomics books
    Martin Wolf: what trade wars tell us

    A new book looks at why global conflicts owe more to divisions within countries than between them

  • Tuesday, 9 June, 2020
    Non-Fiction
    Does US foreign policy lack moral purpose?

    Gideon Rachman consider three books on America in the world over the past century

  • Wednesday, 3 June, 2020
    Books
    How medical tech is transforming the human body in life — and death

    Three new books show how science is pushing at the limits of our mortality

  • Friday, 29 May, 2020
    Books
    China’s soft-power hopes for sci-fi

    First came Beijing’s ‘panda diplomacy’. Now there’s a fan-backed drive to host the ‘Olympics of SF’

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