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Two compelling books analyse the precarious birth of South African democracy and the continuing struggle to overcome the legacy of division
In an absorbing book curated like a museum, Karl Schlögel immerses readers in fascinating details of life in the USSR
Oliver Soden’s captivating and idiosyncratic biography detects the darkness hiding beneath the playwright’s cleverness
The author is at his most free as he oscillates between writing about photography and the nature of his own allusions
An ambitious novel explores the tension between religious belief and the state in today’s China
Mike Martin’s illuminating account of warfare offers guidelines to achieve lasting peace
Anna Grzymała-Busse’s fine book argues that the religious powers of the Middle Ages were fundamental in forging today’s secular institutions
Clare Carlisle’s new biography splendidly locates the novelist in her times
A gripping selection includes cold war conspiracies and a dark turn for Scottish politics
Frustrated at continued government inaction, the adviser and Leon co-founder serves up a comprehensive and reasoned argument for a coherent food policy
A flawed history of the tricontinental diamond trade focuses on Amsterdam’s Jodenbuurt
This farcical tale of freedom and ecstasy — told in fruity Polari slang — reads as if Jean Genet and Vladimir Nabokov had joined the writing team of the ‘Carry On’ films
From learning to recognise the sources of ‘microstress’ to cultivating your networks for the long haul
The latest TV version of ‘Great Expectations’ is fresh and frank but other authors cry out for adaptation
The novelist’s thrillers have often made fodder for films — now her own story is told in ‘Loving Highsmith’
The Korean-American author on her love for the Neue Galerie, Thom Browne and Kerrygold
The author and psychologist on writing, egoism and finding le mot juste
How to feed ourselves without damaging our health and our planet; the human history of anti-globalisation; ‘post-fascism’ in Italian politics; what post-invasion life is like for Iraqis; the enduring appeal of vinyl records; Curtis Sittenfeld’s witty new novel; a farcical tale in fruity Polari — plus highlights of the FT Weekend Oxford Literary Festival
The ambitious debut novel by Lydia Sandgren arrives in translation garlanded with praise and attention
Light and lively adaptation of Anthony Horowitz’s novel is a sure-fire crowd-pleaser
Maggie O’Farrell’s retelling of the short life of Hamnet Shakespeare struck a chord when it was published in March 2020 — and now it’s coming to the RSC
A thought-provoking take on how US entrepreneurs have thrived due to the country’s vibrant — if sometimes ‘messy and difficult’ — democracy
A haunting account of the impact of western policies premised on sectarianism that engulfed the country after 2003
This keenly anticipated new novel — about the amorous ambitions of a TV sketch writer — is layered with witty social observation
A sharp observer of democracy who witnessed the break-up of Yugoslavia, she wrote truths that made you laugh — until you cried
Jonathan Scott tracks the scientific ingenuity and corporate rivalry that created recorded music’s most durable format
Historian David Broder on why Giorgia Meloni and her populist government provoke questions about the past
Tara Zahra deftly weaves cutting-edge scholarship and human stories into concerns about democracy, markets and nation-states
The ‘Lincheng incident’ pitted bandits against a wealthy elite — and is recreated in James Zimmerman’s immersive account
An analysis of the potential of technology to transform personalised medicine is both stimulating and comprehensive
Chris Laoutaris’s engaging account of how Shakespeare’s ‘First Folio’ was published 400 years ago
Dorothy Tse’s debut novel draws on protests in Hong Kong to plunge its protagonist into Kafkaesque situations
Angela Saini looks at how and why so many societies formed where men gained power over women
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From the politics of food to the origin of time, the war on Ukraine to the realities of crime fiction
Philip Hensher embraces the pandemic narrative with a mixture of fever-fuelled fantasy and astute social commentary
Three new books assess the social, historical and ideological factors shaping Tory electoral strategy under Rishi Sunak
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