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Politics books

July 2024

  • Jack Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier<br>John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier sit together in the sunshine at Kennedy's family home at Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, a few months before their wedding.

    Book of the day
    Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed by Maureen Callahan review – a lacerating exposé

    The journalist’s sickening account of how generations of Kennedys casually abused the women around them with impunity is a timely reminder of the dangers posed by damaged men who crave power
  • Potholes In The Middle Of A Mountain Road<br>Pothole Britain for G2

    Great Britain? by Torsten Bell – why Labour must move fast and fix things

    The influential policy wonk and new MP for Swansea West sets out how the government can show it means business

    • Football, faith and Fabianism: what books by the new frontbenchers tell us about the way Labour will govern

    • ‘They always got away with it’: new book reveals Kennedys’ shocking treatment of women

    • Sexed by Susanna Rustin review – the fraught battle for feminism

June 2024

  • Oleksandr Mykhed: ‘Every warm memory of home is destroyed’.

    The Language of War by Oleksandr Mykhed review – what role for the artist in times of catastrophe?

  • books

    ‘It was an awakening’: Diane Abbott, Nicola Sturgeon, Rory Stewart and more on the books that shaped their politics

  • A man walks by flags picturing the face of Atatürk during a protest.

    The Endless Country by Sami Kent review – After Atatürk

  • A Nazi parade in Vienna in about 1930, with marchers holding swastikas and giving Nazi salutes

    ‘The greatest thinker you’ve never heard of’: expert who explained Hitler’s rise is finally in the spotlight

  • Observer New Review Q&A
    Ex-Tory MP Rory Stewart: ‘I guess my hand will float over Labour, but will probably come down on Lib Dems or the Greens’

  • William Keegan's in my view
    This timid ‘Ming vase’ strategy won’t turn Labour into a dynasty

    William Keegan

  • Summer reading: 50 of the best new books to dive into

  • What Does Israel Fear from Palestine? by Raja Shehadeh review – in pursuit of peace

  • Book of the day
    The Architecture of Modern Empire by Arundhati Roy review – two decades of fire

  • VV Ganeshananthan and Naomi Klein win Women’s prizes for fiction and nonfiction

  • Hamas: The Quest for Power review – the men behind the masks

  • Ukrainian author turned soldier Oleksandr Mykhed: ‘This is not Putin’s war. This is a war waged by the whole Russian nation’

  • Kabul: Final Call by Laurie Bristow; The Afghans by Åsne Seierstad reviews – how the west abandoned Afghanistan… and what happened next

  • The Incarcerations: BK-16 and the Search for Democracy in India by Alpa Shah – review

  • ‘We need other logics for our approach to nature’: the woman uprooting colonialism in botany

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