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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
This first English-language edition captures a postwar society caught between idealised past and traumatised present
Has US economic stagnation destroyed the myth of an ever-better life for its citizens? David Leonhardt argues that it has
Where the subcontinent should go next, the value of time and a generational transfer of wealth — all in our round-up of the best new economics titles
Ever been called a ‘Luddite’? Brian Merchant finds timely parallels between the 19th-century movement and insecure workers at the likes of Uber or Amazon
The Path to Paradise digs deep into a man whose achievements are almost too much for one life — never mind one book
Stuart A Reid’s thriller-like investigation stitches together the evidence for CIA involvement in the killing of the Congolese leader
An ambitious book that examines our global obsession with home ownership
A new exhibit in Rome was born out of the enthusiasm of the Italian far-right for the fantasy epic
Richard Langlois reframes the economic, institutional and intellectual development of the managerial era
Judges hail dystopian portrait of an imagined Ireland descending into totalitarianism
The actor on Hollywood’s AI dilemma, resisting his nice-guy reputation — and why Jeff Bezos couldn’t tempt him into space
The German author’s coming-of-age novel is preoccupied with innocence and complicity
The award-winning author evokes a world of chaos and instability, with a multi-dimensional protagonist at its centre
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