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    • Friday, 24 March, 2023
      The best books of the week
      The Peking Express — a film-like true story of a train hijacking

      The ‘Lincheng incident’ pitted bandits against a wealthy elite — and is recreated in James Zimmerman’s immersive account

    • Wednesday, 8 March, 2023
      Review
      The Collaborators — case studies in survival and betrayal

      Ian Buruma profiles three figures whose wartime actions remained mired in accusations of treachery — and delusion

    • Friday, 3 March, 2023
      Review
      The Other Renaissance — the northern age of discovery

      Paul Strathern’s lively portraits prove that Italy was not the only part of Europe shaping the modern world

    • Friday, 3 March, 2023
      The Weekend Essay
      Apocalypse then: lessons from history in tackling climate shocks

      What can we learn from studying thousands of years of humanity’s response to natural disasters?

    • Friday, 3 March, 2023
      ReviewFT Books Essay
      A difficult reckoning with Ukraine’s wartime history

      Two new books explore aspects of Ukraine’s troubled 20th-century history

    • Thursday, 23 February, 2023
      FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival
      The Earth Transformed — an epic survey of our interaction with the environment

      By foregrounding humanity’s impact on nature and climate, Peter Frankopan reframes what matters most in the history of our planet

    • Friday, 17 February, 2023
      ReviewBiography and memoir
      Voyager — the memory of Pinochet’s victims, written in the stars

      In her extraordinary memoir, Chilean writer Nona Fernández combines astronomy and neuroscience with a refusal to forget

    • Thursday, 16 February, 2023
      ReviewFT Books Essay
      The 1600s: England’s century of bloodshed and revolution

      With conflict over Ireland, Scotland and Europe, monarchy and governance, the 17th century had uneasy parallels with today

    • Friday, 10 February, 2023
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      Wise Gals by Nathalia Holt — the female spies who came in from the cold

      Rich with detail, this gripping book charts the extraordinary bravery and professional barriers faced by women working in intelligence

    • Wednesday, 8 February, 2023
      Tony Barber
      De Gaulle grandson veers off the statesman’s track

      History contains some notable examples of progeny with more extreme politics than their parents or grandparents

    • Wednesday, 8 February, 2023
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      Pirate Enlightenment by David Graeber — sea battles and radical social experiments

      A case for swashbucklers in Madagascar first discovering the ideals of reason, liberty and toleration

    • Friday, 3 February, 2023
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      The Museum of Other People — who owns history?

      Adam Kuper takes a provocative look at questions of ethnography, ownership and restitution

    • Thursday, 26 January, 2023
      FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival
      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

    • Wednesday, 25 January, 2023
      Review
      Red Memory — enforced forgetting and the legacy of the Cultural Revolution

      Tania Branigan’s intimate stories of survivors capture a traumatic decade for many that still informs modern China

    • Wednesday, 25 January, 2023
      ReviewFT Books Essay
      How America picks its battles

      Isolationist superpower or still ‘the world’s policeman’? Two books explore the competing impulses in US politics

    • Tuesday, 24 January, 2023
      Review
      Parisian Days by Banine — model citizen

      Swept along by revolutionary forces, the young émigré seeks to realise her dreams of ‘freedom and fantasy’ in 1920s France

    • Monday, 23 January, 2023
      ReviewFiction
      The New Life by Tom Crewe — mind-body complex

      An intense and precise novel that explores the changing sexual mores of Victorian society through the eyes of two ethical pioneers

    • Tuesday, 17 January, 2023
      Review
      The long shadow of Iraq and its lessons today

      Melvyn Leffler’s new history of the war against Saddam reveals how guilt, fear and hubris led to a fateful military intervention

    • Friday, 13 January, 2023
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      The Rise of Corporate Feminism — Allison Elias on the injustice of the ‘office wife’

      A riveting account of how secretaries were left behind in the fight for equality in the workplace

    • Wednesday, 14 December, 2022
      ReviewArts books
      The Artist’s Studio — of shivering nudes and cultural pilgrimage

      James Hall reveals some surprises in his diverting history of these ‘crucibles of creativity’

    • Thursday, 1 December, 2022
      FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival
      Poisoning, adultery, incest, murder and mayhem: a family history of humanity

      From Genghis Khan to Caesar, Simon Sebag Montefiore’s entertaining new take on the history of the world is told via some rather troubling relatives

    • Thursday, 24 November, 2022
      FT SeriesBest books of the year 2022
      Best books of 2022: History

      Tony Barber selects his must-read titles

    • Tuesday, 22 November, 2022
      Special ReportFT Wealth: December 2022
      Book review: ‘Crassus’ by Peter Stothard

      Power, ambition and failure in the story of the ‘first tycoon’, ancient Rome’s richest man

    • Friday, 4 November, 2022
      ReviewFT Books Essay
      The legacies of the Ottoman Empire

      A century after its demise, the effects of the end of empire are still being felt

    • Thursday, 27 October, 2022
      Review
      Mussolini remembered: benign perceptions of the fascist leader have helped Italy’s far right

      Two timely books — by Paul Corner and John Foot — argue convincingly that the nation exonerated itself over crimes carried out under the Duce

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