• April 16 2026
  Life & Arts

  Do Not Go Gentle by Kathleen Stock — a flawed argument against assisted dying

  As the UK bill flounders in the House of Lords, the philosopher makes an impassioned case opposing a change to the law

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• April 15 2026
  Biography and memoir

  The Wonderful World That Almost Was — a full-bodied artistic romance

  An enthusiastic biography of New York art duo Peter Hujar and Paul Thek adds to their growing reputation four decades after their death

  
• April 14 2026
  Books

  You Are the Führer’s Unrequited Love — the truth behind the ‘good Nazi’

  In a hybrid of fiction and essay, Jean-Noël Orengo explores how Albert Speer charmed Hitler and then laundered his own postwar reputation

  
• April 13 2026
  Life & Arts

  Robot-Proof — can the next generation keep a step ahead of the machines?

  Vivienne Ming argues for a change in how we prepare the young for a near-future dominated and ‘deprofessionalised’ by AI

  
• April 10 2026
  Books

  The best books of the week

  From a portrait of Samuel Alito, the Supreme Court justice who helped unshackle Trump, to the case for free-market capitalism and how plastic trashed the planet. Plus the complicated, fascinating life of Jan Morris, Gwendoline Riley’s tale of toxic men, and other top new fiction

  
• April 10 2026
  The best books of the week

  Plastic Inc — how the defining material of the modern age ended up trashing the planet

  Beth Gardiner’s angry, well-researched book investigates a profit-driven industry and the environmental debts it imposes on generations

  
• April 9 2026
  The best books of the week

  Mutiny: The Rise and Revolt of the College-Educated Working Class — the overqualified fight back

  Noam Scheiber documents the debt-laden graduates stuck in low-status jobs who are sparking a new wave of labour protest

  
• April 8 2026
  The best books of the week

  Samuel Alito and the making of a conservative court

  Two new biographies trace how a once-overlooked justice helped overturn Roe vs Wade, unshackle Trump and transform the US Supreme Court into a culture-war battleground

  
• April 7 2026
  The best books of the week

  Chasing Freedom — Simukai Chigudu on the trail of Rhodes and Mugabe

  This Zimbabwean academic’s coming-of-age memoir turns a personal odyssey into a political reckoning of a nation’s cruel history and current agonies

  
• April 6 2026
  The best books of the week

  Jan Morris by Sara Wheeler — ‘a woman different to any other’

  A carefully measured biography grapples with the life of the fascinating, complicated and often exasperating writer, adventurer and transgender pioneer

  
• April 6 2026
  The best books of the week

  In defence of the rich — and other new economic books

  Critiques of free-market capitalism, plus an argument for letting private companies own, buy and sell land on other planets

  
• April 3 2026
  Life & Arts

  Self-Help from the Middle Ages — how to cure your lust, sloth and avarice

  Peter Jones’s funny, exhilarating book shows that our ancestors were just like us — but wiser

  
• April 2 2026
  Social Media

  Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed — how tech turned to oligarchy

  Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff pinpoint the SpaceX entrepreneur’s clever leveraging of state support to exert influence over government itself

  
• April 1 2026
  FT Books Essay

  When Britain stopped — the almost-revolution of the 1926 general strike

  Three compelling histories chart the battle between government and workers that shut down the nation — and shaped politics in the years that followed

  
• March 31 2026
  Life & Arts

  The Beginning Comes After the End by Rebecca Solnit — everything is connected

  In a short history of the recent past, the writer-activist argues for a more optimistic perspective of the current political gloom

  
• March 30 2026
  Life & Arts

  Walter Benjamin — Peter E Gordon’s vivid pearl of a biography

  A timely and valuable look at the critical insights of a great ‘European mind’ and a life ended while fleeing the Nazis

  
• March 27 2026
  Global migration

  Nation of Strangers by Ece Temelkuran — no way home

  The exiled Turkish writer’s beautifully written work offers rich psychological insights into the lives of migrants

  
• March 26 2026
  Life & Arts

  In search of Albion — the folklore, myths and magic that built British culture

  Three books take a tour through history to unpick the facts and fictions that still inform the national sense of identity

  
• March 25 2026
  Life & Arts

  The Infinity Machine — a deep dive into the mind of Demis Hassabis

  Sebastian Mallaby’s compelling biography of the DeepMind co-founder traces his life’s mission to create artificial general intelligence

  
• March 24 2026
  Life & Arts

  Fear and Fury — law, disorder and white rage in 1980s America

  Heather Ann Thompson’s history returns to the Goetz shootings that divided New York — and continue to cast a long shadow today

  
• March 23 2026
  Life & Arts

  Economics for the real world — a provocative new playbook, plus India’s growth story

  Dani Rodrik sets out ambitious new ways to tackle the fraying postwar order, while Arvind Subramanian and Devesh Kapur chart India’s dramatic transformation

  
• March 20 2026
  Middle East war

  Behind the myth-making of Mossad

  Two books on the Israeli intelligence service peddle mystique as history, while a hostage’s account of his captivity in Hamas’s tunnels is heartbreaking in its honesty

  
• March 19 2026
  Life & Arts

  The Last Kings of Hollywood — Spielberg, Coppola, Lucas and the movies that changed the movies

  Paul Fischer’s perceptive, propulsive book tells the story of how three directing titans remade American cinema

  
• March 18 2026
  Life & Arts

  Recession by Tyler Goodspeed — a myth-busting guide to economic contractions

  A former head of the Council of Economic Advisers explores how and why downturns happen

  
• March 18 2026
  History books

  After Nations — imperial impulses and the making of our shifting world order

  Rana Dasgupta’s globe-spanning history asks if we are living in a new age of empires