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The MoJ’s consultation on digitising these documents fails to consider crucial points
Hear from the winner of the FT and Schroders Business Book of the Year
Debates about crucial topics such as AI and net zero currently exclude large swaths of the population
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
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Two paintings dismissed by the late artist’s foundation form the centre of a wry investigation into artistic authenticity
Philip Goff has made an ambitious attempt to explain what our lives mean but with arguments that are sometimes too narrow
Was the great 18th-century revolution in learning the pride of European civilisation — or a tool of empire? Two books debate its consequences
This splendid biography of ‘the last conservative’ is also an insightful history of 20th-century thinking
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
Alan Shipnuck’s definitive account of the messy birth of LIV Golf pierces the game’s genteel image
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
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
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
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
Richard Langlois reframes the economic, institutional and intellectual development of the managerial era
The German author’s coming-of-age novel is preoccupied with innocence and complicity
The media lawyer shows how surveillance and intimidation are used to silence critics
A personal and philosophical introduction to the Golden Age of painting that is fascinating but frustrating
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