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  • Thursday, 14 January, 2021
    John Thornhill
    Conspiracy theorists destroy a rational society: resist them

    We need to rebut propagandist falsehoods before they infect the real world

  • Friday, 8 January, 2021
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Feline Philosophy by John Gray — the wisdom of cats

    A serious polemic that attacks the western tradition of moral thought and links the feline good life to the ethics of Spinoza and the Taoists

  • Thursday, 10 December, 2020
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    The Pattern Seekers — inside the mind of the most inventive humans

    Simon Baron-Cohen makes a case for neurodiversity, arguing that autism confers advantages that we should value

  • Friday, 20 November, 2020
    FT SeriesBest Books of the Year 2020
    Best books of 2020: Food and drink

    Tim Hayward selects his must-read titles

  • Tuesday, 17 November, 2020
    FT SeriesBest Books of the Year 2020
    Best books of 2020: Science

    Clive Cookson selects his must-read titles

  • Friday, 13 November, 2020
    FT SeriesBest Books of the Year 2020
    FT readers — what is your favourite book of 2020?

    Tell us your recommendation and pick up a few tips for your own reading list too

  • Monday, 2 November, 2020
    How To Spend It
    The Cause: Dr Shini Somara is shaking up STEM education

    The mechanical engineer and TV presenter is rewriting the male world of science, one storybook at a time

  • Saturday, 31 October, 2020
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    A Life on Our Planet — David Attenborough’s warning for the natural world

    A ‘witness statement’ from a lifetime of travels — and an urgent call to action

  • Friday, 23 October, 2020
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Digital privacy — can we reclaim it?

    Two books ask how we can take back control of our data in a surveillance society

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  • Monday, 21 September, 2020
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    The Next Great Migration, by Sonia Shah

    An original work that plays down the economic motives of modern migrants

  • Friday, 18 September, 2020
    Review
    Are cooler heads needed on climate change?

    Two controversial authors take aim at the scare stories — and puncture a few myths on the way

  • Friday, 11 September, 2020
    ReviewHistory books
    The Invention of Medicine by Robin Lane Fox — time and healing

    An exploration of early medicine makes for a vivid ride through ancient Greece

  • Wednesday, 9 September, 2020
    Climate change
    Animal population down more than two-thirds in 50 years, WWF says

    New Living Planet Report shows natural world is in ‘freefall’

  • Tuesday, 8 September, 2020
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Anti-vaxxers: How to Challenge a Misinformed Movement

    Jonathan Berman’s book is a guide to strategies for converting the ‘vaccine hesitant’

  • Friday, 4 September, 2020
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    The twilight between humans and animals

    Two books explore what it means for humans to live with animals — and warn that we retreat from nature at our peril

  • Friday, 28 August, 2020
    Review
    Analogia, by George Dyson — merging with the machines

    How computing’s fourth age will call time on human mastery of technology

  • Tuesday, 25 August, 2020
    Review
    Entangled Life — of mushrooms, magic and more

    Fungi are only the tip of complex networks that we are barely beginning to understand

  • Thursday, 13 August, 2020
    Review
    Rewilding by Paul Jepson and Cain Blythe — radical rewards

    From grazing in the Arctic to creating an ‘ecospace’, the wild ideas behind this new book are worth considering

  • Saturday, 18 July, 2020
    FT Books Essay
    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

  • Thursday, 25 June, 2020
    FT SeriesSummer Books 2020
    Summer books of 2020: Science

    Clive Cookson selects his best mid-year reads

  • Wednesday, 13 May, 2020
    FT Books Essay
    The humbling truth about the limits of innovation

    How do promises of rocket planes and ageing cures sit with our failure to stop coronavirus?

  • Thursday, 7 May, 2020
    FTWeekend Live Q&A
    Why nature is the antidote to our modern ills

    Three books bring home how we have a once-in-a lifetime chance to reset our relationship with the natural world

  • Wednesday, 8 April, 2020
    ReviewCoronavirus pandemic
    Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs

    Michael Osterholm’s persuasive blueprint demands a rethink for the post-coronavirus era

  • Friday, 6 March, 2020
    ReviewFT Wealth
    Immortality, Inc — Big Tech’s immortality quest

    How Silicon Valley titans came to believe ageing was a disease that could be cured

  • Wednesday, 19 February, 2020
    FT Books Essay
    How to heal our planet

    Four new books on climate change offer answers to one of the 21st century’s most pressing dilemmas

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