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Was the great 18th-century revolution in learning the pride of European civilisation — or a tool of empire? Two books debate its consequences
From zeroes to heroes, this eye-opening history takes in the mysteries of mathematics and its unsung pioneers
Two paintings dismissed by the late artist’s foundation form the centre of a wry investigation into artistic authenticity
Artificial intelligence prone to drama, bossiness and paranoia shines a light on human foibles in Julianne Pachico’s latest novel
Philip Goff has made an ambitious attempt to explain what our lives mean but with arguments that are sometimes too narrow
The reissue of Pierre Drieu la Rochelle’s cult 1930s novel of angst and ennui-driven drug use doesn’t quite make the case for the book
The hatchet job is a dying art, so how are we meant to know which cultural offerings to avoid?
The darker side of the Enlightenment; the ‘cancelling’ of Charlie Chaplin; a biography of Milton Friedman; a book to make you love maths; the faking of Andy Warhol; an AI parable with a jungle setting; the ‘Purpose of the Universe’, no less; a reissue of a cult 1930s French novel
This splendid biography of ‘the last conservative’ is also an insightful history of 20th-century thinking
A well-crafted first novel from the writer of a memoir and short stories features siblings with very different paths in life
Scott Eyman’s compelling, empathetic account traces Charlie Chaplin’s fall from grace in postwar America
Listeners’ book questions answered, with literary editor Fred Studemann and deputy books editor Laura Battle
The MoJ’s consultation on digitising these documents fails to consider crucial points
At the revival of Soho’s infamous Colony Rooms, the clientele are not true artists but aspiring bohemians
Hear from the winner of the FT and Schroders Business Book of the Year
Nick Cave, Louise Bourgeois, Gustav Holst – and a glow-in-the-dark The Night Before Christmas
Debates about crucial topics such as AI and net zero currently exclude large swaths of the population
A self-described ‘writer, lyricist, musician and naughty boy’, he was concerned with action as much as aesthetics
In a toothsome history, Pen Vogler tells a fascinating story about how politics and culture shaped our relationship with food
Long banned and now newly translated, the Soviet writer’s picaresque novel takes aim at the brutality of collectivisation
Spectres of the real world lurk in the shadows of Camilla Grudova’s collection of baroque nightmares
Alan Shipnuck’s definitive account of the messy birth of LIV Golf pierces the game’s genteel image
Hiroko Oyamada’s short, powerful debut novel poses vital questions about life and the futility of corporate jobs
Food that feels like a hug
From leadership and logistics to robots and drones, two new books assess what matters in 21st-century warfare
Tobias Becker’s thought-provoking book explores the power — and dangers — of nostalgia
Her book ‘Right Kind of Wrong’ aims to reframe failure and promote intelligent risk taking
Daniel Schulman’s richly detailed chronicle is a timely corrective to historical distortions that have helped feed antisemitism
Memoirs of the socialites and swells of an earlier era offer perfect festive reading — without today’s celebrity spin
Management title ‘Right Kind of Wrong’ praised as ‘highly readable and relevant’
The chilling Booker Prize-winner by Paul Lynch — plus a dystopian thriller, a Christmas panto whodunnit and a Poirot adventure
Boss of the UK’s biggest books chain and of Barnes & Noble in the US argues listing would be ‘sensible’ for revitalised industry
Guy Standing’s new book makes a powerful if utopian case for time as an emancipatory measure of inequality
Set in her native land, Liliana Corobca’s novel uses a child’s perspective to paint a vivid picture of cruelty and poverty
The author on how his dystopian vision of Ireland ‘Prophet Song’ holds warnings for us all
The band’s guitarist has resurrected an ambitious failed project from 1970 — but as a graphic novel
A terrible crime forms the backdrop for an exploration of French class anxiety in a strange, magnificent novel
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