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FT Books Essay

  • Sunday, 16 June, 2024
    The best books of the week
    How should migration be managed?

    As the global movement of people prompts hardline approaches by populists and policymakers, four new books explore the west’s struggle to balance domestic pressures with the plight of asylum-seekers

    A man in a hat and with  a bag and blanket on his back watches a heavy-goods train passing
  • Saturday, 8 June, 2024
    ReviewBooks
    Beijing’s new world order

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

  • Saturday, 1 June, 2024
    Biography and memoir
    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
  • Sunday, 26 May, 2024
    ReviewBooks
    Taiwan on the faultline

    Three books to help understand the challenges faced by new president Lai Ching-te and the dangers facing Taipei today

  • Wednesday, 1 May, 2024
    ReviewPolitical books
    How to understand Modi’s India

    Is India enjoying a golden age or in democratic decline? And what will the prime minister do next? As the nation goes to the polls, four books attempt to unravel its many complexities

  • Saturday, 27 April, 2024
    ReviewBooks
    Can the art market be fixed?

    From shady deals to outright fraud, a series of high-profile scandals have rocked the art world. What’s the solution?

    A group of people, mainly young women, inside a blue-walled art gallery with large pictures on its walls
  • Wednesday, 17 April, 2024
    ReviewBooks
    Are video games coming for the novel?

    With immersive storylines and powerful, emotive writing, some of the most thrilling fiction out there is being created in game form

    A video game scene depicting a rundown port town
  • Thursday, 11 April, 2024
    ReviewBooks
    Reading Genesis — Marilynne Robinson’s new insights on the first book of the Bible

    The literary superstar’s profound comments on mankind’s relationship with God are both beautiful and thought-provoking

  • Wednesday, 20 March, 2024
    ReviewBooks
    Will the hijab protests finally bring change to Iran?

    Mahsa Jina Amini’s death at the hands of the morality police unleashed an uprising — but will it unseat the regime?

    A graphic novel-style illustration shows Iran’s supreme leader in his black robes at the top, behind riot police — and at the bottom women taking off their hijabs to protest
  • Tuesday, 12 March, 2024
    Biography and memoir
    High finance, low spirits — insider tales from Wall Street and the City

    Two sharp memoirs give a glimpse of the steep rewards — and downsides — of working at the summit of the financial sector

  • Tuesday, 5 March, 2024
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    The Achilles Trap by Steve Coll — how America misread the Middle East

    The Pulitzer-winning journalist compellingly chronicles why four successive US presidents failed to contain Saddam Hussein — with disastrous results

  • Thursday, 29 February, 2024
    ReviewHistory books
    How to Win an Information War — a history lesson in effective counter-propaganda

    Peter Pomerantsev profiles a propagandist who targeted the Nazis — and warns of the fight needed to nail Putin’s lies on Ukraine

    Russia’s Vladimir Putin appears on a big screen in front of supporters in December 2023
  • Thursday, 1 February, 2024
    Books
    Why are America’s suburbs failing?

    In ‘Disillusioned’, Benjamin Herold follows five families coping with the wreckage created by outer city development

    Houses on a street
  • Friday, 26 January, 2024
    The Oscars 2024: all you need to know
    ‘American Fiction’ and real-life publishing’s attitude to race

    We may think that the Oscar-nominated movie is knockabout comedy, but how truthful is it to the way the industry works?

    Actor Jeffrey Wright holding a pile of books in a scene from the film American Fiction
  • Tuesday, 16 January, 2024
    ReviewBooks
    What a post-war future holds for Ukraine and Russia

    Four books look at the forging of a new Ukrainian national identity in the furnace of war — and a glimmer of light in the Russian exiles who have fled their homeland

  • Wednesday, 3 January, 2024
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Can Labour win again? History might hold the answer

    From Ramsay MacDonald to Keir Starmer, three new books offer lessons for the party as it prepares for a general election

  • Wednesday, 13 December, 2023
    ReviewHistory books
    Does the Enlightenment still matter?

    Was the great 18th-century revolution in learning the pride of European civilisation — or a tool of empire? Two books debate its consequences

    A lithograph from the late 1700s of a man in a tunic of animal furs against a dark backdrop
  • Thursday, 7 December, 2023
    ReviewGeopolitics
    What can Ukraine teach us about the future of war?

    From leadership and logistics to robots and drones, two new books assess what matters in 21st-century warfare

    A group of Ukrainian soldiers, all in combat fatigues, with one of them operating a drone control console
  • Thursday, 30 November, 2023
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Is the American dream really dead?

    Has US economic stagnation destroyed the myth of an ever-better life for its citizens? David Leonhardt argues that it has

  • Thursday, 23 November, 2023
    ReviewBooks
    How to embrace misfires, setbacks and flops

    Two books on sensible risk-taking urge innovators to learn from ‘intelligent failures’

  • Saturday, 11 November, 2023
    Books
    Hot stuff: why readers fell in love with romance novels

    Romance is now the top-selling genre in fiction. How did we become so infatuated?

    Two young couples intertwined
  • Wednesday, 25 October, 2023
    Non-Fiction
    Are we right to fear China?

    Despite dire warnings about autocracy and human rights, expert voices urge greater understanding of this ever more powerful player

    A small figure in silhouette walks past a large portrait of Xi Jinping waving. The portrait is flanked by other photographs of the Chinese president meeting the people
  • Thursday, 12 October, 2023
    ReviewBooks
    Spy masters — the hidden lives of Ian Fleming and John le Carré

    Two works turn the tables on our assumptions about the giants of British espionage fiction

  • Thursday, 28 September, 2023
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Return of the Caesars: the making of emperors and dictators

    Autocracy is something today’s democracies thought they had left behind, but two books — one focused on antiquity, the other on modern history — shed light on how it is enabled

    A statue of Julius Caesar in Naples looks out to sea towards a couple of container ships
  • Wednesday, 20 September, 2023
    ReviewHistory books
    Germany’s chaotic year: 1923 and the lessons for today

    Crisis bred crisis in the Weimar Republic. On the centenary of the turbulent period, two books offer a reminder of the vigilance required to sustain democracy

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