By drawing on the country’s progressive tradition when it comes to women’s empowerment, Julia Ioffe makes a refreshing argument that a different Russia is possible
Jay Rayner on the secret of a great restaurant; Salman Rushdie’s new short stories; an urgent warning about the tech giants’ dominance; lessons for the Trump era from the US founding fathers; Johnson & Johnson’s loss of public trust; new novels by Lily King and Benjamin Myers; a ‘hitchhiker’s guide’ to a galaxy of reading — plus Alex Clark’s pick of audiobooks and Ruth Padel on the poetry of Seamus Heaney
Jeffrey Rosen’s timely book reminds us of the prescience of Hamilton and Jefferson and the need to curb demagoguery
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst is an entertaining companion on a literary tour of how good writing works (and how bad writing doesn’t)
Is entrepreneurship plus celebrity a recipe for success? Our critic savours a clutch of memoirs by restaurateurs, from The Ivy’s Jeremy King to Drew Nieporent’s venture with Robert De Niro
A former New York Times reporter accuses the US company of corporate gaslighting on an epic scale in his book ‘No More Tears’
The author and scholar warns of the dangers of our reckless economic experiment with powerful platforms
Beguiling memoirs from Kathy Burke and Evan Dando; murder and madcap mystery from Ann Cleeves and Bob Mortimer; and Sarah Perry on an extraordinary ordinary man
True to his subject, Lance Richardson immerses himself in the wilderness to observe an exotic creature of the literary realm
From India’s lightbulb moment to what the wine world can do better — a selection of the best new books on the environment
A would-be blueprint for Conservative boosterism is a curious collection of old economic ideas
Three fascinating books explore longevity, living well — and the tech billionaires’ belief that an end to ageing is within our grasp
Two short essays, translated into English for the first time, offer a coda on the late writer’s life-long preoccupations
Jacob Silverman takes a lively and provocative look at how Elon Musk and other leading lights in Silicon Valley shifted away from a liberal ethos
Emily Baker-White examines how the pioneers of an addictive app ended up outwitting the geopolitical superpowers
Forget Big Tech — about one-third of real global wealth is tied up in ownership of the ground beneath our feet
A little gem of a book touches on the darkness that made Ernaux one of our greatest writers
Plokhy’s urgent history focuses on the fear of annihilation as the driving force behind the arms race
Bill Clinton emerges as something of a prophet in a book about a gamble on free trade, while Giuliano da Empoli offers a stark warning on the coming world order
Two books look at how so much central and eastern Europe identity has long been defined by an animosity to Moscow
Princeton president Christopher Eisgruber and Sarah McLaughlin of Fire on safeguarding student debate in an angry, polarised world
Two scientists go where many fear to tread in the fight against far-right disinformation on climate and vaccines
Memoirs by Mary Portas and Gene Pressman recall the fashion, fun — and fish tanks — of Harvey Nichols and Barneys in the 1990s
The ‘Too Big to Fail’ author returns with an eye-opening account of the banking titans and practices that led to financial disaster
The Patagonia founder, who made a fortune only to give it all away, emerges as a complex and conflicted individual in this biography
