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Contrasting perspectives on the author — and the invisible life of his first wife
A bold dissection of humanity’s collective challenges poses difficult questions about global democracy
Tiya Miles traces a simple cotton sack across generations of enslaved women to tell a powerful story of love and survival
History’s lessons on the rise and fall of empires; four women who fought totalitarianism with their minds; the Finnish nation-builder who compromised with the Nazis; Russia’s haunted hinterland in the Caucasus; politics and an elegiac new novel by Ann Patchett — plus Adam LeBor’s round-up of thrillers
From Ancient Rome to China’s Huawei, two new titles look to history as a guide for the geopolitical shape of things to come
The fourth volume of the former Labour politician’s diaries skilfully weaves the personal with the political
Wolfram Eilenberger on the existential thinkers Arendt, de Beauvoir, Rand and Weil, who squared up to the true horrors of their time and explored what freedom meant
From stone tablet to Kindle, two surveys of the history of the book probe what comes next, in the era of e-readers and text-guzzling AI
A bravura sweep through an age of peace, politics, bloodshed and barbarians
Joyce Moullakis and Chris Wright trace how a small Australian merchant bank became a global behemoth
Mark O’Connell sets out to get inside the mind of notorious murderer Malcolm Macarthur in this queasily brilliant book
Ralph Dutli’s rounded biography of the Soviet-era writer murdered by Stalin deftly examines his literary legacy
Anya von Bremzen’s history takes us from borsch to pad Thai to the Margherita pizza
Fresh perspectives on issues including London’s air quality, human waste mismanagement and the worldwide water crisis
The historian recounts his experience of growing up in Iraq, Israel and England — and brilliantly evokes a lost world
The former US trade representative on how America must produce as well as consume — and win friends in the global economy
From war funding to the creation of a methodical banking system that inspired confidence and secured Britain’s financial reputation
From white supremacism to census ethnicity questions, a clutch of new books enters the debate over racial identity
Two books paint a portrait of a brilliant generation falling prey to barbarism under the Third Reich
Mike Jay offers a timely account of the eccentric pioneers behind the development and popularisation of mind-altering drugs
Patrick Deneen’s critique of liberalism raises serious issues — but at times veers close to advocating a US theocracy
Three new books help recalibrate our relationship to the water that sustains us
A masterful account of the 1945 treason case that forced a reckoning with four years of Nazi collaboration
The cricketer’s memoir offers lessons for current captain Ben Stokes as he seeks a comeback for the England team
A compulsive portrait of plagiarism, literary envy and the pressures on young writers in the social media age
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