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    • Friday, 22 September, 2023
      ReviewBooks
      The best books of the week

      Weimar Germany’s nightmare, 100 years on; a political memoir by Theresa May; the 2023 Booker shortlist; the US’s global power in data networks; Karl Ove Knausgaard’s existential new tome; the enduring appeal of being a goth; James Ellroy’s Marilyn Monroe novel; new titles on the environment — plus Nilanjana Roy on painting a human picture of a divided India

      A woman sits on a rocky hillside, reading in daylight
    • Friday, 22 September, 2023
      Nilanjana Roy
      The novelists painting a human picture of Modi’s divided India

      Fiction goes where news falls short, bringing depth and nuance to the lives of people crudely labelled by politics or religion

      A Muslim girl rides a bicycle past an untethered bull on a street in northern India
    • Thursday, 21 September, 2023
      The best books of the week
      ‘Vibrant and electric’ selection makes Booker prize shortlist

      Top award in original English-language fiction reflects ‘full range of lived experience’, says jury chair

    • Thursday, 21 September, 2023
      The best books of the week
      The Wolves of Eternity — Karl Ove Knausgaard casts an existential spell

      The second novel in a new series by the Norwegian master is epic and weighty — and repeatedly touched by death

      An illustration of two hands meeting and seeming to clutch some flowers
    • Tuesday, 19 September, 2023
      The best books of the week
      The Enchanters by James Ellroy — glamour, greed and Marilyn Monroe

      The laureate of American sleaze conjures a lost LA out of the film star’s death and a cast of real-life characters including JFK

    • Saturday, 16 September, 2023
      FT Magazine
      Chicken-foot broth: a short story by Will Harris

      ‘Jim’s expression is curious, tortoise-like. He looks at you like a family member he hasn’t seen in a long time’

    • Friday, 15 September, 2023
      Review
      Prophet Song — Paul Lynch’s Dublin dystopia

      The depiction of tyranny and the traumatic fallout for its opponents in this Booker-longlisted novel is utterly believable

    • Thursday, 14 September, 2023
      Review
      The Vaster Wilds — America’s founding myths reimagined

      Lauren Groff’s evocative novel challenges legends about the Puritans’ arrival in America — and offers a female-focused alternative

    • Wednesday, 13 September, 2023
      Review
      Absolutely & Forever by Rose Tremain — thwarted love and beyond

      A postwar coming-of-age story told with elegance and wit stands comparison with the best of Muriel Spark

    • Friday, 8 September, 2023
      InterviewLunch with the FT
      Nobel-winning novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah: ‘I had no other place to go’

      The writer on the pull of Zanzibar, his disquiet at Britain’s treatment of refugees — and the problem with italics

      Illustration of Abdulrazak Gurnah
    • Friday, 8 September, 2023
      Review
      A Dictator Calls — what did Stalin really say on the phone?

      Ismail Kadare digs deep into a fabled telephone conversation that may have sealed the fate of a dissident Russian poet

    • Friday, 8 September, 2023
      Review
      The Secret Hours by Mick Herron — scheming and bungling before Slough House

      Filling in the ‘Slow Horses’ back-story, this sort-of prequel is part belly-laugh spy spoof, part elegiac state-of-the-nation satire

      View of some of London’s bridges, with Tower Bridge in the distance
    • Wednesday, 6 September, 2023
      Review
      Wednesday’s Child by Yiyun Li — brittle fractures of the heart

      The short stories in the writer’s third collection are quiet, subtle and often agonisingly wrenching

    • Monday, 4 September, 2023
      Review
      Sleuths and suspense — best new crime fiction

      Stephen King gives an old love her own book, Christopher Fowler’s farewell, and much more

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    • Saturday, 2 September, 2023
      FT Magazine
      John Banville on his turn to crime writing

      ‘I shall continue to write novels, but I will never write another like The Singularities’, writes the Booker Prize winner

    • Friday, 1 September, 2023
      Review
      North Woods by Daniel Mason — tales from a haunted house

      Twelve stories of the life, love and tribulations of consecutive inhabitants of an isolated house in Massachusetts

    • Thursday, 31 August, 2023
      Review
      The Fraud — Zadie Smith’s tremendous take on the historical novel

      Literary rivalry, a Victorian trial, slavery in Jamaica . . . the author effortlessly casts her own light on the past

    • Wednesday, 30 August, 2023
      ReviewCrime books
      The City of the Living — a murder that shocked Rome

      In his fictionalised account of a sadistic real-life crime, Nicola Lagioia digs deep into Italy’s capital and its gay scene

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    • Wednesday, 30 August, 2023
      ReviewTelevision
      Ruth Wilson stands out in brooding BBC1 series The Woman in the Wall

      A new show about Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries is a chapter of not-so-distant history that plays like a gothic horror

    • Monday, 28 August, 2023
      ReviewScience fiction books
      The best new sci-fi: supervillains and AI phenomena take pride of place

      Satire, if not quite gay abandon, abounds — and Shakespeare’s legacy lives on

    • Friday, 25 August, 2023
      Review
      How to Build a Boat — a boy, two teachers and a lesson in humanity

      Elaine Feeney’s Booker-longlisted novel is suffused with generosity, wisdom and understanding

      A red haired boy jumps in the air, his arms stretched out behind him
    • Friday, 25 August, 2023
      Nilanjana Roy
      The pleasures of bilingual reading

      Younger people seem more open to reading in translation — or in a second language — and it’s changing their world view

    • Friday, 25 August, 2023
      Review
      The Wren, The Wren by Anne Enright — vivid, voluble and deeply gratifying

      The Booker-winner’s new novel is a finely tuned account of an Irish family and the traumas handed down across generations

      a painting of a bird perched on pieces of paper left on an open grassland, In the background are three persons, a house and a ship
    • Thursday, 24 August, 2023
      Review
      The Wolf Hunt — fear and parenting in Silicon Valley

      Ayelet Gundar-Goshen’s psychological thriller is also a meditation on the immigrant experience and the fragility of identity

      Rows of identical houses, seen from above on a sunny day
    • Thursday, 17 August, 2023
      ReviewThriller books
      A Bird in Winter — political intrigue and personal dilemmas

      With several cliffhanger chapters, Louise Doughty’s latest novel is a consummate psychological thriller about a female spy navigating the corridors of power

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