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  • Friday, 14 June, 2024
    The best books of the week
    Brat by Gabriel Smith — a gothic tale packed with dark humour

    A weird and raucous novel about living and dying

    A photo of a person in a room wearing a deer head
  • Thursday, 13 June, 2024
    The best books of the week
    Godwin by Joseph O’Neill — mining football talent

    A quest to find a brilliant and elusive African soccer player forms the backdrop to O’Neill’s globetrotting novel

    Illustration of a person in a person with pages flying in the air
  • Thursday, 13 June, 2024
    The best books of the week
    Clean by Alia Trabucco Zerán — seeking meaning in the menial

    Social ills and unrest in modern-day Chile play out in a tense and tragic story of a put-upon domestic worker

    A photo of a woman cleaning a hallway with a large mop
  • Thursday, 13 June, 2024
    The best books of the week
    Behind the Privet Hedge — a surprisingly radical history of suburban gardens

    Michael Gilson’s tribute to 20th-century English gardening, its role in social change — and its forgotten hero

    A plastic gnome with red cap next to a wooden fence in a garden
  • Tuesday, 11 June, 2024
    InterviewFiction
    The Crazy Rich Asians author knows super-rich fashion

    Designer diamonds, luxury yachts and hallucinogenic toads all feature in Kevin Kwan’s latest novel

  • Tuesday, 11 June, 2024
    The best books of the week
    Night Flyer — Harriet Tubman and her place in Black American history

    Tiya Miles revisits the pivotal achievements of a woman who helped dozens escape slavery via the Underground Railroad

  • Monday, 10 June, 2024
    The best books of the week
    Climate’s impact on sports and a call to arms — a round-up of environment books

    New titles include billionaire climate investor Tom Steyer on a way of life we can all pursue and a meditative take on nature’s resilience

  • Sunday, 9 June, 2024
    HTSI
    Hockney and me – a friendship in photographs

    Gallerist John Kasmin has been shooting pictures of the artist since 1961. Now he’s got a show of his own

    Kasmin, David Hockney and Sheridan Dufferin on a flight from Minneapolis to Chicago, 1965
  • Saturday, 8 June, 2024
    Enuma Okoro
    The beauty and burdens we carry

    The physical and emotional weights we bear tell stories about our values, fears and longings

  • Saturday, 8 June, 2024
    ReviewFT Books Essay
    Beijing’s new world order

    Three new books on China help bring definition to the emerging economic contours of cold war 2.0

  • Friday, 7 June, 2024
    What are your favourite books of 2024 so far?

    This year’s much-anticipated Summer Books series is almost upon us — and, as ever, we want to hear from you

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  • Friday, 7 June, 2024
    ReviewEconomics books
    Shock Values — how inflation shaped American democracy

    Carola Binder’s monetary history uncovers the deep entanglement of price rises and politics

    A man in a suit, seen from behind, stands next to a fuel station where a sign says ‘No More Gas Today’. He holds out his thumb as a car approaches
  • Friday, 7 June, 2024
    ReviewPolitical books
    The Searchers by Andy Beckett — the making of the Labour left

    A portrait of the figures from Benn to Corbyn who made waves in the party but often put protest before power

    A man in a suit and yellow tie stands smiling in a crowd of people holding balloons and placards with the words Ken’s Fare Deal
  • Thursday, 6 June, 2024
    Edwin Heathcote
    Is it art — or is it interior decorating?

    When we acquire a painting surely we are asking, where could I put that? Where would it fit? Does it go with the sofa?

    Modern living room interior with a beige sofa adorned with cushions, a knitted throw blanket, and stylish abstract art prints on the walls. A large potted plant adds a touch of greenery to the space
  • Thursday, 6 June, 2024
    ReviewFiction
    Ghostroots — magic and mayhem on the streets of Lagos

    ’Pemi Aguda’s short stories evoke the chaos, smells, corruption and supernatural influences in Nigeria’s biggest city

    A packed crowd of people carrying packages and goods
  • Thursday, 6 June, 2024
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    The Playbook by James Shapiro — a jaw-dropping account of the rise and fall of the Federal Theatre

    A bracing tale of the cultural clash between arts and politics that still resonates today

  • Wednesday, 5 June, 2024
    ReviewFiction
    Private Rites by Julia Armfield — a dystopian world where it always rains

    An intriguing and provocative apocalyptic tale loosely inspired by ‘King Lear’ 

    A close-up image of heavy rain drops pounding a wet pavement
  • Wednesday, 5 June, 2024
    ReviewFiction
    Parade by Rachel Cusk — artistic reflections that will irk and intrigue

    Four stories about authorship and identity within the visual arts are interspersed with observations from a shape-shifting narrator

    An illustration of an artist’s atelier, with many canvases, including ones showing an upside down woman, a man staring at the letter G and an eye
  • Tuesday, 4 June, 2024
    Nilanjana Roy
    What do novelists have to say about election fever?

    With more than 80 countries going to the polls this year, it’s time to revisit the best fictional accounts of political high drama

    Looking down on a line of people in an alleyway
  • Monday, 3 June, 2024
    ReviewScience fiction books
    From the Pleistocene to steampunk — the pick of new science fiction

    Haunted landscapes figure prominently in recent releases, while a key voice on American dystopia receives welcome reissues

  • Sunday, 2 June, 2024
    Review
    Rinsed by Geoff White — how Silicon Valley wizardry helps launder dirty cash

    A riveting look at not only the nuts and bolts of cons and crimes but the techniques detectives use to stalk cyber criminals

    Illustration of a $100 note with fluro green numbers across the image
  • Saturday, 1 June, 2024
    FT Books Essay
    Why we still care about Kafka

    100 years after the writer’s death, what do his uncensored diaries, and a raft of new studies, reveal about what made him and his relevance in our digital age?

    Blue-toned Pop Art image of the face of writer Franz Kafka
  • Saturday, 1 June, 2024
    FT SeriesShakespeare Lives!
    Who was Shakespeare?

    Our enduring obsession with biographies of the Bard makes for uncomfortable reading

    What do we really know about the life of William Shakespeare?
  • Friday, 31 May, 2024
    ReviewPolitical books
    UK general election 2024: FT readers recommend five books to read

    A selection of the most insightful titles on the race for Downing Street

    Labour leader Keir Starmer takes a campaign trail selfie with someone’s baby
  • Friday, 31 May, 2024
    John Gapper
    The Baillie Gifford boycott does more harm than good

    Campaigning against the asset manager has shallow logic and will make the literary world poorer

    Signs that include Baillie Gifford are removed in Hay-on-Wye, Wales
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