As the global movement of people prompts hardline approaches by populists and policymakers, four new books explore the west’s struggle to balance domestic pressures with the plight of asylum-seekers
Trouble at the border; dark humour in gothic tale Brat; the radical history of suburban gardening; what the Capetians and Plantagenets did for us; a new novel from Joseph O’Neill; the heroine of the Underground Railroad; social unrest in Chile; a pilgrim in search of Dostoyevsky’s soul — plus the best new environment titles
Two books shed new light on the dynasties that laid the foundations of the modern European nation
Leonid Tsypkin’s newly reissued novel fuses Soviet-inflected nostalgia with a biography of the great Russian writer
A weird and raucous novel about living and dying
A quest to find a brilliant and elusive African soccer player forms the backdrop to O’Neill’s globetrotting novel
Social ills and unrest in modern-day Chile play out in a tense and tragic story of a put-upon domestic worker
Michael Gilson’s tribute to 20th-century English gardening, its role in social change — and its forgotten hero
Tiya Miles revisits the pivotal achievements of a woman who helped dozens escape slavery via the Underground Railroad
Three new books on China help bring definition to the emerging economic contours of cold war 2.0
New titles include billionaire climate investor Tom Steyer on a way of life we can all pursue and a meditative take on nature’s resilience
Carola Binder’s monetary history uncovers the deep entanglement of price rises and politics
The Canadian is not afraid to tackle serious subjects and big ideas
Designer diamonds, luxury yachts and hallucinogenic toads all feature in Kevin Kwan’s latest novel
Gallerist John Kasmin has been shooting pictures of the artist since 1961. Now he’s got a show of his own
The physical and emotional weights we bear tell stories about our values, fears and longings
This year’s much-anticipated Summer Books series is almost upon us — and, as ever, we want to hear from you
A portrait of the figures from Benn to Corbyn who made waves in the party but often put protest before power
When we acquire a painting surely we are asking, where could I put that? Where would it fit? Does it go with the sofa?
’Pemi Aguda’s short stories evoke the chaos, smells, corruption and supernatural influences in Nigeria’s biggest city
A bracing tale of the cultural clash between arts and politics that still resonates today
An intriguing and provocative apocalyptic tale loosely inspired by ‘King Lear’
Four stories about authorship and identity within the visual arts are interspersed with observations from a shape-shifting narrator
With more than 80 countries going to the polls this year, it’s time to revisit the best fictional accounts of political high drama
Haunted landscapes figure prominently in recent releases, while a key voice on American dystopia receives welcome reissues
A riveting look at not only the nuts and bolts of cons and crimes but the techniques detectives use to stalk cyber criminals
100 years after the writer’s death, what do his uncensored diaries, and a raft of new studies, reveal about what made him and his relevance in our digital age?
Our enduring obsession with biographies of the Bard makes for uncomfortable reading
A selection of the most insightful titles on the race for Downing Street
Campaigning against the asset manager has shallow logic and will make the literary world poorer
The ‘Cleopatra and Frankenstein’ author’s second novel shows women facing the aftermath of addiction and bereavement
A special edition of the FT Magazine reveals how 460 years after Shakespeare’s birth, his powers are undiminished
The 85-year-old writer’s subversive novel wades into the horror show of a 19th-century asylum ruled over by a brutal gynaecologist
Rose Boyt’s account of her father exposes the shocking realities of life with the ‘difficult genius’ of British art
A powerful story of brotherhood, friendship and extraordinary courage during the Biafran conflict
A guide to ‘optimising your life for wealth and success’ from the professor of marketing at NYU Stern
Shannon Vallor argues that the more power we cede to ‘giant mirrors of code’, the less we use our own practical wisdom
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