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  • Thursday, 17 December, 2020
    Review
    How autocracies endure

    The Arab uprising fuelled hopes of sweeping change. Three books explore why that did not happen as expected.

  • Monday, 14 December, 2020
    ReviewBooks
    A statistical history of Britain fit for the census year

    Boris Starling scours the ONS in order to retell the story of the nation in data

  • Saturday, 21 November, 2020
    FT SeriesBest Books of the Year 2020
    Books written by FT journalists in 2020

    Our pick of the best books written by current and former FT writers

  • Wednesday, 18 November, 2020
    FT SeriesBest Books of the Year 2020
    Best books of 2020: Environment

    Pilita Clark selects her must-read titles

  • Wednesday, 18 November, 2020
    FT SeriesBest Books of the Year 2020
    Best books of 2020: Politics

    Gideon Rachman 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

  • Friday, 13 November, 2020
    Review
    Isolationism by Charles Kupchan — charting a solo course

    The US should neither run the world, nor run from it, says a former Obama adviser

  • Thursday, 12 November, 2020
    Review
    The remarkable rise of Rishi Sunak

    Michael Ashcroft charts the relentless ascent of the UK chancellor but struggles to find much grit

  • Wednesday, 11 November, 2020
    FT Books Essay
    Out of the shadows: Britain’s spy agencies in the modern world

    Two books look at the hard graft of gathering intelligence and our enduring fascination with spookery

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  • Tuesday, 10 November, 2020
    Review
    What now for conservatism?

    Edmund Fawcett dissects the contradictions of conservative thought and political practice in four countries

  • Thursday, 29 October, 2020
    ReviewFT Books Essay
    Is it time to strike back at empire?

    As Black Lives Matter confronts colonialism, historians are reassessing older, more benign accounts of imperial rule

  • Tuesday, 20 October, 2020
    FT Books Essay
    What will Xi’s China do next?

    Three books shed light on the historical forces driving Beijing’s mission for superpower status — and what it means for Asia and beyond

  • Friday, 16 October, 2020
    Interview
    Sarah Kendzior on why Americans should fear the worst in Trump

    In her book ‘Hiding in Plain Sight’, the host of ‘Gaslit Nation’ warns that the road to autocracy in the US is paved with complacency

  • Friday, 16 October, 2020
    Henry Mance
    A glut of White House sagas traps the US in a political rut

    The book industry finds itself profiting from national downfall, but it is time to move on from the Trump soap opera

  • Tuesday, 13 October, 2020
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Samuel Brittan made a unique contribution

    A passionate believer in freedom and true intellectual, he transformed economic journalism in the UK and beyond

  • Thursday, 24 September, 2020
    ReviewBiography and memoir
    Diary of an MP’s Wife by Sasha Swire — a merciless memoir

    A fun but ruthless look at life among the Cameron clique by the wife of former Tory minister Hugo Swire

  • Tuesday, 15 September, 2020
    Review
    Which way now for Fox News and Trump?

    Brian Stelter’s ‘Hoax’ asks where the shifting balance of power lies between the president and the news network

  • Tuesday, 15 September, 2020
    Review
    Tragedy, farce and gossip — inside the Corbyn project

    A deeply reported account of the Labour radical’s trials and mishaps as party leader reads like a thriller

  • Monday, 14 September, 2020
    InterviewFilm
    Thomas Piketty on going from data-crunching to documentary

    The economist talks about transforming his economic opus ‘Capital in the Twenty-First Century’ into a 100-minute film

  • Thursday, 27 August, 2020
    FT Books Essay
    Contested future: What next for the west?

    Globalisation has, for many, undercut wages and jobs — and fuelled populism. Can three new books unpick an issue that so divides us? 

  • Tuesday, 21 July, 2020
    FT Books Essay
    Alarm signals of our authoritarian age

    Martin Wolf reviews two important new books on Trump, strongmen leaders and the most disturbing political development of our times

  • Thursday, 16 July, 2020
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Shadow State by Luke Harding — the long hand of the Kremlin

    An exposé that takes in Skripal, Trump 2016 and the UK’s long-delayed Russia report

  • Wednesday, 15 July, 2020
    Review
    Whatever happened to the party of Reagan?

    Republican stalwarts John Bolton and David Frum long for a return to pre-Trump principles. Does the GOP stand a chance?

  • Friday, 3 July, 2020
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Superpower Showdown — trading blows in a new cold war

    Bob Davis and Lingling Wei’s book traces the US-China stand-off back to the Clinton era

  • Wednesday, 24 June, 2020
    FT SeriesSummer Books 2020
    Summer books of 2020: Politics

    Gideon Rachman selects his best mid-year reads

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