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    • February 13 2024
      Review
      I Seek a Kind Person — saved from the Holocaust by an advert
      Julian Borger tells the remarkable story of how his father and seven other Viennese children who were adopted via newspaper classifieds
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      A clipping of a newspaper showing adverts appealing for people in the UK to adopt children from Vienna
    • February 8 2024
      The best books of the week
      Georgi Gospodinov review — an anatomy of melancholy
      ‘The Physics of Sorrow’ and ‘The Story Smuggler’ by the International Booker winner are wistfully revealing about life in post-Communist Bulgaria
    • February 7 2024
      The best books of the week
      Hannah Arendt’s lessons in life and politics — We Are Free to Change the World review
      How would one of the 20th century’s most important philosophers handle the challenges of today? A new biography offers intriguing answers
    • January 25 2024
      Review
      Breaking Through: My Life in Science by Katalin Karikó — from ‘crazy mRNA lady’ to Nobel laureate
      A riveting account tracks a snakes-and-ladders path, from tough beginnings in Communist Hungary to paving the way for Covid vaccines
    • January 23 2024
      Review
      Missing Persons, Or My Grandmother’s Secrets — behind a wall of silence
      Clair Wills’s story of a family discovery is compelling not just on a personal level but as a vignette of recent Irish history
    • January 19 2024
      Review
      The Rebel’s Clinic — should Frantz Fanon inspire us?
      The anti-colonial militant is a major figure for activists, but controversy over his calls for revolutionary violence remains
      A black-and-white photo of Frantz Fanon reading at a table with a group of white men
    • January 11 2024
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      More: A Memoir of Open Marriage — the joy of extramarital sex
      Rather than rejecting monogamy outright, this thoughtful foray into free love asks if polyamory can enrich a couple’s relationship
      A topless woman face-down on a bed
    • January 10 2024
      Review
      Better Broken Than New — Lisa St Aubin de Terán’s entertaining, shocking memoir
      An English eccentric’s account of life as a perennial traveller and perpetual outsider
      Lisa St Aubin de Terán, in lace-collared jacket, sits with one arm resting on the back of the bench. There is a bunch of flowers behind her
    • December 12 2023
      Review
      Chaplin vs America — red scares, scandal and a star in exile
      Scott Eyman’s compelling, empathetic account traces Charlie Chaplin’s fall from grace in postwar America
      Charlie Chaplin, grey haired, in his sixties, stands smiling, surrounded by reporters
    • December 12 2023
      Review
      Milton Friedman by Jennifer Burns — portrait of an economic colossus
      This splendid biography of ‘the last conservative’ is also an insightful history of 20th-century thinking
      Milton Frideman stands smiling, holding his hands up in front of him. Behind him is the White House
    • December 5 2023
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      The Money Kings — the profound legacy of America’s Jewish banking dynasties
      Daniel Schulman’s richly detailed chronicle is a timely corrective to historical distortions that have helped feed antisemitism
    • December 5 2023
      Nilanjana Roy
      Take refuge in the gossip of the gilded age
      Memoirs of the socialites and swells of an earlier era offer perfect festive reading — without today’s celebrity spin
      Painting of a woman and, to one side, a man, both in Victorian dress, sitting at a dinner table in a dark room softly lit with red-shaded lamps
    • November 29 2023
      ReviewBooks
      The story of Francis Ford Coppola — Sam Wasson on the godfather of cinema
      The Path to Paradise digs deep into a man whose achievements are almost too much for one life — never mind one book
      A man stands in front of people in boats
    • November 17 2023
      FT SeriesBest books of the year 2023
      Best books of 2023 — Sport
      Simon Kuper selects his must-read titles
      Montage of book covers
    • November 16 2023
      Non-Fiction
      ‘Thrillingly told’ account of Canadian wildfire scoops Baillie Gifford prize
      ‘Fire Weather’ named winner of UK’s leading award for non-fiction at ceremony in London
      John Vaillant, writer of ‘Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World’
    • November 16 2023
      FT SeriesBest books of the year 2023
      Best books of 2023 — Literary non-fiction
      Carl Wilkinson selects his must-read titles
      Montage of book covers
    • November 15 2023
      FT SeriesBest books of the year 2023
      Best books of 2023 — Pop music
      Ludovic Hunter-Tilney selects his must-read titles
      Montage of book covers
    • November 10 2023
      ReviewTelevision
      Robbie Williams, Netflix — the polished inside story of the megastar
      The latest biographical documentary to land on the streaming service has the usual carefully managed narrative
      A photo of a younger Robbie Williams smiling and holding a framed platinum album
    • November 3 2023
      ReviewBooks
      Kibogo by Scholastique Mukasonga — tales with a twist
      The Rwandan writer playfully explores storytelling and colonialism
      Woman walking among sown fields
    • October 27 2023
      Review
      The Fall by Michael Wolff — a combative view of Murdoch’s endgame
      The biographer returns to the media mogul and finds a once-powerful figure shaded by ‘doubt, ambivalence, regret’
    • October 17 2023
      Review
      Father and Son by Jonathan Raban — a moving coda to a writer’s life
      The English novelist’s final book blends a memoir of his convalescence in America with the story of his parents’ WWII romance
      English author Jonathan Raban
    • October 13 2023
      Review
      Alone by Daniel Schreiber — seeking seclusion
      A heartfelt memoir on being single, living alone and the existential experience of loneliness
    • October 4 2023
      Review
      Pure Wit — Margaret Cavendish as protofeminist
      Dismissed by Virginia Woolf as ‘an elf’, the prolific 17th-century poet and playwright is given a more positive appraisal in a new biography
    • September 27 2023
      Review
      The Maverick — George Weidenfeld, publisher to saints and sinners
      Thomas Harding’s biography uncovers the secrets of a chameleonic outsider who made himself a fixture of the cultural establishment
    • September 13 2023
      Review
      Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson — clashes of the titan
      An exploration of the tech billionaire’s epic feats, which is long on reporting detail but shorter on the meaning of Musk
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