Claudia Rankine’s timely and powerful collection of prose and poetry concludes her ‘American Lyric’ trilogy
A poignant family history sheds light on the lives of the Germans who fled the Red Army
Why Buddhist monks are setting themselves on fire
Titles intertwine themes of corporate culture and leadership — and a few will help readers prepare for a Covid-shaped world
A page-turner by Bradley Garrett shows how fears of disaster have created a multibillion-dollar doom industry
Collier and Kay’s scathing account of economic self-interest warns of harm to communities
Two books trigger memories and address that which was swept under the carpet during apartheid in the 1980s
A Big Tech satire by the author of Vernon God Little fizzes with ideas and inventive prose
An academic’s entertaining study of the global party scene reveals the gritty truth behind our new gilded age
Michael Ashcroft sends former members of the Special Forces on a secret mission to infiltrate the business of bones in Unfair Game
Martin Wolf reviews two important new books on Trump, strongmen leaders and the most disturbing political development of our times
The US president’s niece rakes over abuse, greed and neglect in a bid to explain his psyche
Ben Mercer’s book is a bildungsroman about a rugby romantic who followed his French dream
Martin Wolf selects 16 books that bring new thinking to some of the world’s economic ills
Andrew Scott and Lynda Gratton want us to reinvent our patterns of work and retirement
Loves & Miracles of Pistola succeeds as a tale of coming-of-age, socio-political commentary, historical anecdote and an ode to Italian cuisine
As protests continue in the US, Rana Foroohar selects key works on the long history of racial inequality
A return to global storytelling might help satiate wanderlust
