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FT Books Essay

• Wednesday, 9 October, 2019
  Economics books

  How economists got it so wrong

  Three new books dissect how capitalism is changing and our failure to spot the danger signs

  
• Friday, 4 October, 2019
  Weekend long reads

  Why we can’t get enough of haunting fiction

  Laird Hunt’s sinister new novel — along with studies of spirits in literature – shows that the ghost story is alive and kicking

  
• Friday, 27 September, 2019
  ReviewPolitical books

  Anti-Semitism, Zionism and the changing politics of the left

  The intricate, complex ties of Jewishness with democracy and Israel are addressed in three challenging books

  
• Friday, 6 September, 2019
  Books

  Will we still need novelists when AI learns to write?

  Fiction allows us to experience the minds of others — but machines could soon do a better job

  
• Friday, 30 August, 2019
  Books

  What do kids’ books teach a post-Potter generation?

  Children’s fiction has long sought to educate — but today’s drive for diversity poses a fresh challenge

  
• Friday, 23 August, 2019
  Non-Fiction

  What drives migration? The answer is neither war nor politics

  Two new books examine the reasons for mass immigration — but only one identifies the role played by demographics

  
• Friday, 16 August, 2019
  Business books

  Kochland — the story of Wichita’s power man

  How did Charles Koch turn the family business into one of America’s richest? A new book unravels the mystery

  
• Friday, 9 August, 2019
  History books

  Five books on the 1819 Peterloo massacre

  The attack on protestors, retold in a graphic novel, ballads and witness accounts, still resonates

  
• Friday, 2 August, 2019
  Books

  Women essayists shift the rules and boundaries

  A crop of collections shows how #MeToo has reawakened the idea that the personal is political

  
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• Friday, 26 July, 2019
  Books

  Death is not the end: the lucrative world of literary estates

  The growth of streaming services, demand for audio books and the globalisation of publishing are a boon for a writer’s descendants

  
• Wednesday, 17 July, 2019
  Political books

  The roots of Putin’s power machine

  Four new books examine the leader’s hold over Russia through the lens of history

  
• Thursday, 11 July, 2019
  Non-Fiction

  Does tech threaten to rerun the worst of the Industrial Revolution?

  Well-argued book ‘The Technology Trap’ raises alarms about the impact of change

  
• Wednesday, 3 July, 2019
  Non-Fiction

  Intergenerational warfare: Who stole the millennials’ future?

  Two new books, ‘The Theft of a Decade’ and ‘Stop Mugging Grandma’, examine the divide

  
• Wednesday, 26 June, 2019
  History books

  Highs and lows of 19th century capitalism are eerily familiar

  ‘The Anxious Triumph’ chronicles boom and dislocation of the late 1800s and provides lessons for today

  
• Friday, 14 June, 2019
  The 50th anniversary of the Moon landing

  What got us to the Moon (and back) in 1969?

  Fifty years on, it is time to reappraise the audacity and political will behind Apollo 11

  
• Wednesday, 5 June, 2019
  Political books

  Solutions to the US-China trade war

  A look at Japan’s pivotal role and how articulating intentions is key to avoiding conflict

  
• Friday, 24 May, 2019
  Books

  Instagram threatens to stifle a new generation of poets

  The social platform has proved an ideal forum but algorithms are commoditising Instapoetry

  
• Friday, 17 May, 2019
  Books

  Riotous works of manga burst into life at the British Museum

  Marvellous range of Japan’s diverse art form shown off in latest catalogue

  
• Friday, 10 May, 2019
  History books

  Publishing’s halcyon days: bastions of privilege and boozy lunches

  Has all the fun gone out of publishing? Three books chart the changing face of the industry

  
• Thursday, 2 May, 2019
  Non-Fiction

  How Spotify’s algorithms are ruining music

  Three books on why streaming comes at a cost to the way we create and enjoy music

  
• Wednesday, 17 April, 2019
  History books

  Why failure is the rocket fuel of aviation

  Three books on Pan Am, Concorde and Freddie Laker show how they helped shape air travel as we know it today

  
• Friday, 5 April, 2019
  Science books

  Einstein, quantum theory and the battle for reality

  Has physics been hijacked by an anti-realist philosophy?

  
• Thursday, 28 March, 2019
  Martin Wolf

  The case for capitalism

  Two new books explore the drivers of prosperity and their impact on democracy, writes Martin Wolf

  
• Friday, 22 March, 2019
  Fiction

  The beat goes on: City Lights’ Lawrence Ferlinghetti at 100

  The founder of the Beat generation recalls a century of literary discovery in his novel Little Boy

  
• Friday, 15 March, 2019
  ReviewBooks

  Strings attached: why women’s sexual liberation came at a price

  Two new books — Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism and How Was It For You? — explore the fallout from the sexual revolution

  

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