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  • Thursday, 20 June, 2024
    The FT’s guide to the best books to read this summer
    Best summer books of 2024: Literary non-fiction

    Carl Wilkinson selects his best mid-year reads

  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
    The FT’s guide to the best books to read this summer
    Best summer books of 2024: Travel

    Tom Robbins selects his best mid-year reads

  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
    The FT’s guide to the best books to read this summer
    Best summer books of 2024: Sport

    Simon Kuper selects his best mid-year reads

  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
    The FT’s guide to the best books to read this summer
    Best summer books of 2024: Food and drink

    Harriet Fitch Little selects her best mid-year reads

  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
    The FT’s guide to the best books to read this summer
    Best summer books of 2024: Environment

    Pilita Clark selects her best mid-year reads

  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
    The FT’s guide to the best books to read this summer
    Best summer books of 2024: Architecture and design

    Edwin Heathcote selects his best mid-year reads

  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
    The FT’s guide to the best books to read this summer
    Best summer books of 2024: Economics

    Martin Wolf selects his best mid-year reads

  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
    The FT’s guide to the best books to read this summer
    Best summer books of 2024: Fashion

    Carola Long selects her best mid-year reads

  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
    The FT’s guide to the best books to read this summer
    Best summer books of 2024: Technology

    John Thornhill selects his best mid-year reads

  • Monday, 17 June, 2024
    ReviewBusiness books
    Business books: what to read this month

    Life advice from a former Teen Vogue editor, supply chain crises, and reportage from the Reddit trading floor

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  • Monday, 17 June, 2024
    The FT’s guide to the best books to read this summer
    Best summer books of 2024: Visual arts

    Jackie Wullschläger selects her best mid-year reads

  • Monday, 17 June, 2024
    The FT’s guide to the best books to read this summer
    Best summer books of 2024: Business

    Andrew Hill selects his best mid-year reads

  • Monday, 17 June, 2024
    The FT’s guide to the best books to read this summer
    Best summer books of 2024: Science

    Clive Cookson selects his best mid-year reads

  • Saturday, 15 June, 2024
    ReviewBooks
    The best books of the week

    Trouble at the border; dark humour in gothic tale Brat; the radical history of suburban gardening; what the Capetians and Plantagenets did for us; a new novel from Joseph O’Neill; the heroine of the Underground Railroad; social unrest in Chile; a pilgrim in search of Dostoyevsky’s soul — plus the best new environment titles

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  • Saturday, 15 June, 2024
    The best books of the week
    Plantagenets, Capetians and the deep medieval state

    Two books shed new light on the dynasties that laid the foundations of the modern European nation

  • 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

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  • 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

  • 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

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  • 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

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  • Thursday, 6 June, 2024
    Review
    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

  • 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

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  • Wednesday, 29 May, 2024
    Review
    The AI Mirror — how technology blocks human potential

    Shannon Vallor argues that the more power we cede to ‘giant mirrors of code’, the less we use our own practical wisdom

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  • Saturday, 25 May, 2024
    ReviewPolitical books
    UK general election 2024: what books to read ahead of the July 4 ballot

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

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  • Friday, 24 May, 2024
    ReviewBiography and memoir
    Agent Zo — a model of resistance

    Clare Mulley’s biography of the heroic Elżbieta Zawacka and Poland’s turbulent history offers  unique insights

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  • Wednesday, 22 May, 2024
    Review
    The Secret Public — how the gay experience drove a 20th-century cultural revolution

    Jon Savage’s dizzyingly detailed account of the shift in attitudes from the 1950s is a timely reminder of the value of today’s freedoms

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