Financial Times

The visionary author on the limits of AI, the uses of science fiction — and why there’s a ‘market opportunity for volleyballs’

https://www.ft.com/content/c1f6d948-3dde-405f-924c-09cc0dcf8c84

Three books urge us to rethink how we tackle climate change; the rightward lurch of the US Supreme Court; Rachmaninoff’s lament for a lost Russia; the greed and short-termism of the asset manag...

https://www.ft.com/content/19b2cbcf-4db2-4f7c-ba36-94270de66989

The rightwing lurch of a crucial branch of government not only stifles liberal causes but is a cause for long-term concern, argue two new insider accounts

https://www.ft.com/content/3b12012a-e0a3-403d-84ac-f0edc24fbeb1

The novel’s female rector protagonist faces a difficult decision in a world of fast-changing mores

https://www.ft.com/content/8584e00b-b298-4ae7-8a27-0c16d580914f

The author finds that a relative’s 18th-century diary offers a window to the past and a context for his own life

https://www.ft.com/content/735fd7ba-03de-4a8f-afe0-0fbb1fab732d

The Argentine author’s award-winning novel revels in black humour on misogyny, abuse and disability

https://www.ft.com/content/1103cf89-36a9-4eb3-adf9-a3bc17bb5b72

A constellation of characters shines in the Booker-nominated author’s caustic campus-set tale of aspiring artists

https://www.ft.com/content/57310f7f-b9b8-45c5-be72-b8d792813195

From fleeing war and revolution to life as an émigré in the US, Fiona Maddocks profiles the much-loved Russian composer

https://www.ft.com/content/b5dc90d2-e0aa-4dd9-82a5-1832cfae8bc8

Three books — including a novel — overturn assumptions about how politics, economics and science should combat global warming

https://www.ft.com/content/eef80bc1-c09f-437f-84c7-6feb7a631ba9

Jen Beagin’s new novel is a brilliant satire of therapy-speak and wellness

https://www.ft.com/content/f89bac32-93fe-4fe4-abcf-4a3f2244fb53

It is hard not share Brett Christophers’ rage in this polemic against the greed and short-termism of the asset management industry

https://www.ft.com/content/7da72f9c-978b-41e7-8e4b-478818f7456f

Alexander Chula’s eclectic biography shows that the African nation has rich lessons for wealthier countries

https://www.ft.com/content/73daa363-5e4e-4c7a-a857-0ab77c3040d7

The writer’s life might best be understood as one long reply to George Orwell’s idea that only plainness can illuminate truth

https://www.ft.com/content/295c3e9e-0b9a-4c60-bc97-c50fb6567b62

Wang Xiaobo’s semi-autobiographical account of the final decades of the 20th century in China is both subversive and hilarious

https://www.ft.com/content/2c040c7b-f6c9-4c2b-9a3c-d4c14a58df29

Two books by leading historians do a fine job in charting the path from fanaticism and violence to national reconciliation

https://www.ft.com/content/2849553f-54e6-45bf-8668-a1cb42293648

Tired of endless books on time management? An artist and a watchmaker, no less, share wisdom about this most precious resource in modern life

https://www.ft.com/content/f838eb98-2b2e-45d4-8080-85d4ad6a8886

The sequel to ‘The Country of Others’ finds its Catholic-Muslim couple facing the upheavals of Morocco in the 1960s

https://www.ft.com/content/3252b619-8593-4bf0-85d0-df2f3722d543

Author Georgi Gospodinov and translator Angela Rodel on ‘Time Shelter’, the first Bulgarian book to win the prize

https://www.ft.com/content/fda1e637-8dac-49fc-88d0-bd14e1e84b1e

A Downing Street inspired satire by Boris Johnson’s former adviser pales in comparison with political reality

https://www.ft.com/content/def2247c-02fa-4de2-9142-244de9a975f7

The writer confronts family woes — and the difficulty of championing leftwing causes while hailing from privilege

https://www.ft.com/content/fe76e36f-1faf-412a-9d8d-0e98a9556497

The FT examines the causes and effects of an increasing global resistance to antibiotics: from the pressures doctors are under to prescribe them, to what new treatments are currently in the pipel...

https://www.ft.com/reports/future-antibiotics

Martin Daunton’s history of trade liberalisation shows that capricious US opinion has always mattered most

https://www.ft.com/content/56e83591-bb57-4014-aa70-e200ba398551

Hard-hitting fiction offers warnings about the dangers of a reimagined history

https://www.ft.com/content/b5a46eb6-9969-4cad-ae41-30a831562408

How the wunderkind behind shoe etailer Zappos set a goal of happiness rather than riches but ended his life in squalor and delusion

https://www.ft.com/content/9b061f22-5d5b-4e7d-9723-dc33074f72f0

A comic prodigy who relished vulgarity and made low-life subject matter a speciality, he was always a literary critic at heart

https://www.ft.com/content/c0df7ab3-8512-4241-8a14-89a787ffc1fb