Obama’s climate negotiator gives insights into the fraught Paris 2015 deal while a historian does a demolition job on our energy transition delusions
The historian draws on his experience in Ukraine and eastern Europe to warn of the dangers of tyranny in the US
Technique or temperament? The alchemy of great art is elusive — but this peek inside painters’ studios offers tantalising insights
Ex-Moscow correspondent Lucy Ash examines the complicity of the Orthodox Church in the Kremlin’s war against Ukraine
A new book from the eminent statistician shifts from trivial issues of probability to the risk of getting cancer
Spanning the arc of the author’s own life, this personal progress is by turns drolly self-mocking, mischievously randy and touchingly vulnerable
A young woman’s noble ambitions are compromised by the corrupting influence of money
Kate Summerscale’s gripping analysis of the Christie crimes is also an uncompromising picture of women’s lives in postwar Britain
A new novel exposes the plight of part-time workers while smuggling in some valuable lessons on management
An urgent call to guard against tyranny; Kremlin propaganda and the complicity of Russia’s Orthodox Church; far-right white nationalism in America’s hinterlands; the Rillington Place murders and women’s lives in postwar Britain; David Spiegelhalter on the role of luck and chance; inside the artists’ studios (and their minds); new novels by Alan Hollinghurst, Rumaan Alam and Clare Chambers — plus Gideon Rachman’s pick of politics titles
A look at the impact of white nationalism and the far right in the Appalachias
The author follows her acclaimed 2020 novel ‘Small Pleasures’ with a portrait of extraordinary lives in 1960s suburbia
It’s not ingratitude to acknowledge the tension between acclaim and attention
Yes, please do. Everyone is dying to know why it wasn’t your fault
The author loves James Baldwin, French Wordle and enjoying her ‘retirement renaissance’
A writer unpacks a lifelong obsession
Though in my youth I never found any doors into other worlds, as an adult my dreams are providing more than I can possibly open
The US foreign policy machine in action, origins of the new cold war, and Putin’s invasion of Ukraine as viewed from Washington
Rebecca Hall, Arooj Aftab, Louis Fratino, and Alba and Alice Rohrwacher lead a meditative autumn arts special
Guillermo Del Toro, Ben Affleck, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, even the Pope come here for rare first editions
Peter Parker’s two-volume anthology is a meticulous portrait of prejudice and the gradual shifting of public opinion
Yael van der Wouden’s novel is powerful tale of buried guilt, repressed desire and the lasting dispossessions of the Holocaust
Neha Dixit’s vivid chronicle of an urban migrant’s struggle to survive plays out against the backdrop of modern India
The novelist loves perfume, paperweights and writing pads from Home Depot
The heir to the Roche pharmaceuticals dynasty on how corporate power can be harnessed in the quest for sustainability
Russ Buettner and Susanne Craig lay bare the financial facade — and the credulous system that believed the boasts
Jerry Brotton takes an intriguing look at the cardinal directions and what they tell us about the Earth and its inhabitants
Flawed characters and toxic chemicals are woven together in Louise Erdrich’s story of three families in a Dakota farming community
The Nobel laureate cements her reputation as one of the great storytellers of our age
Brigid Schulte makes a convincing case for a drastic overhaul of the way we earn a living
The author charts her decades-long quest — via co-working hell — to a bolt-hole above a mews house
Alan Moore starts a five-part series set in the capital, plus a mixed-bag 1970s anthology and a lavish Michael McDowell reissue
Whether you’re looking to impress friends with leatherbound classics, or conjuring up a witchcraft reading room, Ultimate Library can help
Historian Keith Lowe takes a rigorous, myth-busting look at the city’s chaotic recovery in the wake of war and fascism
Three new books on the US look at the Clinton decade, the rise of conspiracies and the existential threat of November’s presidential election
His first collection was a poignant tribute to the London community in which he grew up; his second is about partying. What’s behind the Nigerian-British writer’s change of tune?
The business of femtech, taming artificial intelligence, and personal efficiency for the 2020s
